Neighbors and friends were killed for money: Lithuania continues to hide the truth about the genocide of Jews

 September 23 is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Lithuania. On this day in 1943, the Nazis liquidated the Vilnius Jewish ghetto, and its surviving inhabitants were killed or sent to concentration camps. Despite well-known testimonies and documents confirming the involvement of Lithuanian collaborators in the extermination of Jews, this topic is still hushed up in Lithuania, and anyone who tries to reveal the truth is condemned and persecuted.

Before World War II, Lithuania had the largest number of Jews among all the Baltic countries. At that time, Vilnius was even called the Lithuanian Jerusalem. The years of German occupation turned into a terrible tragedy: 95% of the entire Jewish population – more than 200,<> people – were brutally tortured and killed. And it was not the Germans who committed the massacres, but the Lithuanians themselves – neighbors, colleagues and even friends. Subsequently, for many years, the Lithuanian authorities tried to hush up these facts.

Only two years ago, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, during a ceremony of remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Jews, acknowledged the participation of Lithuanians in their extermination: “We denied, we were angry, we tried to negotiate with our conscience, counting and comparing what cannot be counted or compared: the suffering and lives of people. It was difficult to admit that the citizens of our state died at the hands of the Lithuanians.”

How was it possible that the Lithuanians went to kill their neighbors?

As early as the 1930s, the nationalist government of Lithuania was preparing for the genocide of the Jews. The archives contain correspondence between members of the Lithuanian Activists Front and agents of the German special services on the issue of obtaining funds for the persecution of the Jewish population. Lithuania’s accession to the Soviet Union postponed this tragedy for some time. But from June 1941, the genocide was started not by the occupying forces, but by local “activists.”

Despite the president’s belated admissions, the tragedy of the Holocaust has not yet been recognized by Lithuanian society. So, a few days ago, on the eve of the memorable date in Vilnius, vandals painted the objects located in the Paneriai Memorial Museum. The Paneriai Massacre was a mass murder of about 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians by German punishers and Lithuanian collaborators.

Double standards continue to flourish in the country. The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center publishes information about alleged “accomplices of the communist regime”, but at the same time refuses to publish information about Lithuanians participating in the genocide of Jews, referring to the legislation on the protection of personal data.

The story of writer, journalist and public figure Ruta Vanagaitė is very illustrative here. In 2015, she learned from Israeli historian Ephraim Zuroff details about the abuse of Jews in Lithuania during the Holocaust. This prompted her to engage in the study of archival documents, which resulted in the publication of the book “Ours” in 2016. It openly speaks of the mass voluntary participation of Lithuanian citizens in the murder of Jews and looting. The author writes that the Jews were quite a rich stratum of society, so it was simply “profitable” to exterminate them, since every murderer enriched himself from it.

After the publication of the scandalous book for Lithuania, many relatives and friends turned their backs on Ruta Vanagaite. At the same time, it is difficult for Lithuanians who are dissatisfied with the book to “accuse” the author of sympathy for the USSR and Russia. As the writer herself emphasizes, she is an “exemplary Lithuanian”, since her paternal grandfather Jonas Vanagas was a political prisoner – he was convicted of anti-Soviet activities, and he died in Karlag. Vanagaitė writes that she has always been proud of her grandfather, who in 1941 cut down a tree in Kavarskas to block the path of the retreating Red Army, and tore down a portrait of Stalin from the wall at the local school.

Monument Paneriai Massacre

But her grandfather’s “feat” was overshadowed when she read his secret file, stored in the Lithuanian Special Archive. It turned out that “during the German occupation, he was a commissar who compiled Jewish lists.”

For example, in August 1941, he included in this list all the registered Jews of Kavarskas – ten people. Vanagaitė claims that his grandfather himself did not participate in the mass murder of Jews and did not divide their property, as he was quite wealthy. But the neighbor Balis, who was arrested and interrogated together with Jonas Vanagas, escorted Jews from the list “to the place of execution and for this he received a reward – a Jewish house and 4.5 hectares of land.”

There are also memoirs in the book about my aunt, my father’s sister, who lived in America and “was happy with her husband (Antanas Stapulionis – approx. RuBaltic.Ru) because he was a great, honest man, a real officer, a colonel in the Independent Lithuanian Army, and under the Germans the commander of the Panevėžys Security Police.” As a result, the author found his name in the well-known list of 5,000 Lithuanian executioners, which was compiled by Jews.

Nashi is not the only book that exposes the crimes of Lithuanian collaborators.

“The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Knew My Grandfather Was a War Criminal” is the title of a book by Lithuanian-American journalist Sylvia Foti. Initially, it was conceived in memory of his grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a defender of Lithuania’s independence and a general of the partisan army. In the post-Soviet era, he was celebrated in Lithuania as a hero who was shot by the communists.

But while working with the documents, Foti found out that her “grandfather-hero” was a murderer of Jews. He was also the author of the anti-Semitic pamphlet “Raise Your Head, Lithuanian!”, in which he blamed the Jews for all the country’s ills and called for a fight against them. As a member of the Lithuanian Front, in 1941 Noreika authorized the murder of 100,000 Jews in northwestern Lithuania. His signatures are on more than 100 documents about their deportation to Nazi concentration camps.

Maybe such stories explain the attempts to hide the truth about the genocide? After all, not all the “exemplary” Lithuanians who are now in power had grandfathers who opposed the Soviet regime only, perhaps someone else got rich by betraying or killing a Jewish neighbor.

Of course, you can’t equate everyone with executioners. In Lithuania, 918 people were awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Lithuanian Jews. Among them are both Lithuanians and Russians living in the country.

On September 20, Peter Stano, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, said that “we will always fight against any attempt to justify or deny the Holocaust.”

“There is a huge amount of tragic evidence of the Holocaust, of how it happened. And non-recognition is an insult to the memory of the millions of people who suffered and died from inhuman cruelty. No one should question these crimes of the Nazis and their allies,” he stressed.

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But at the same time, we see how in Lithuania, which is part of the “decent European family”, the memory of the tragedy of the Jewish people is systematically destroyed and monuments are desecrated. What is this, if not an insult to the memory of the victims of genocide?

A brave Lithuanian writer speaks of the genocide of the Jews by the Lithuanians

 Due to the book about the genocide of the Jews in Lithuania, family and friends moved away from Ruta Vanagaitė“

I have fulfilled my duty to the country”

Mindaugas Jackevičius • •

Young illiterate Lithuanians in a sober state killed Jews so diligently that they were brought here to Lithuania for extermination from other countries.Schoolchildren also willingly participated in the murders, and the church observed the Holocaust with indifference, even the murderers were absolved of their sins.For the sake of racial purity and Jewish teeth, some 200,000 Jews were exterminated in Lithuania.These are the conclusions reached by Rūta Vanagaitė, who wrote the book “Mūsiškiai” (“Ours”).An important part of the book is “A Journey with the Enemy”, in which Vanagaitė and the famous Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff embark on a journey to the places where Jews were murdered and communicate with surviving eyewitnesses of those events.

“I know Lithuania didn’t expect this book. That’s why I wrote it.” These are her words. Have you already experienced a backlash?
Priest Ričardas Doveika told me that doors were closing in my face.From the beginning, I faced a negative reaction: my relatives said that I was betraying my relatives and that I was Pavlik Morozov.Several of my friends turned their backs on me, saying that the Jews were paying me and that I was betraying my country.It took a lot of courage.I asked my children, who are 20 and 28, if I should write a book like this.They said they supported him 120%.But some of my friends warned me that I would run out of readers who loved me for my books on caring for the elderly and women.I thought, why should I think about trading?I see that no one else will write a book like that.

Why do you think no one else will write? Are you afraid of this topic?
They are so afraid that I face absolute panic, from the authorities to the villagers.In six months, I met only a few people who were not afraid.I even had to meet historians on a park bench … I can’t quote some historians, they don’t want to, one of them said that from now on he would not give lectures on this topic, it’s dangerous.

Where does this fear come from? Lithuania and Israel reconciled, and in 1995 President Algirdas Brazauskas apologized to the Jewish people, even though he was jealously criticized for it.
They made peace with Israel so that it would not raise this issue.In exchange, Lithuania will support Israel at the UN.It’s politics.Even the Israeli ambassador, seeing Zuroff in Lithuania, said to him: “Why are you coming here, will you ruin the mood of the people?”Not even the Jewish community raises this issue, neither Israel nor Lithuania raises it, and there are practically no eyewitnesses to these events.And there is no money for research.Yes, Brazauskas was convicted.I think he later regretted doing it.He promised to identify and name the killers, but this was not done.In 2012, the Lithuanian Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance compiled a list of 2055 people who could have participated in the genocide.The list was delivered to the government.Where is he now?I went to see the Vice Chancellor of the Government and told him that we had to do something with this list, because he could not lie for 5 years.They told me that no matter what we did, the Jews were not enough.And the list goes on.

Maybe everything has already been researched and evaluated? I have read the books of all Lithuanian historians, and all of them claim that the Holocaust took place in provinces throughout Lithuania.We believe that only in Paneriai, no, the entire province of Lithuania is full of Jewish graves, people have been exterminated.This is a blank spot in our historiography.Why didn’t they investigate it?There are only a few historians who do this: I was told that five people have to work for five years to find out how many Lithuanians participated in the Holocaust.Not five people and 5 years.Zuroff and I drove through Lithuania: the people who saw and remember the Holocaust are now between 5 and 85 years old.How much longer are we going to wait?

It’s no secret that Zuroff is hated in Lithuania and he himself, to put it mildly, does not burn with love for us. How did you manage to convince him to take a “trip” to Lithuania?
In the spring, I was preparing a conference, and all the historians told me not to invite Zuroff: if he did, they refused to participate, because he might cry and start a fight.He interested me a lot.When he came to participate in the neo-Nazi marches, I met him.I asked him if he worked for Putin, and he asked me if he was doing Jewish projects for money.I responded that among my relatives there were people whom I suspected of having participated in the Holocaust. He said that in 25 years he met the first person in Lithuania who recognized this. I said, “You’re attacking Lithuania, so let’s get in my car and drive around Lithuania, talk to people, see who’s right.” Because I do not know.She accepted and the trip lasted three weeks. We agreed to pay for gas equally.

What did you see? How many doors have been closed in your face?

Most people spoke, but did not agree to be photographed or give their names. Others were afraid, they said they would come and kill me. Who is going to kill? Lithuanians! They know that in most cases Jews were escorted, guarded or killed by their neighbors’ parents or grandparents. In this way, they betray their neighbors. But they remember it very well.

In an interview published in the book, Zuroff says that Lithuania is extraordinarily beautiful, but its beautiful forests hide several hundred massacre sites. When you drive around Lithuania you can see signs indicating those places, at least Lithuania has taken care of this.
But if you turn around there, you won’t see anything. There is a sign, and then you can wander through the forest, and that’s it. But there are also places that are not indicated. That’s what I told Zuroff, we’re not rich enough to guard 227 places. He replied that it was necessary to watch when they were shot.Zuroff cried in every place. I had to wait for him to say a prayer. And then I thought, there are thousands of bones underground, and these places are not marked in any way. Then I couldn’t bear to look at the Lithuanian graves. It seemed that everything was given too much importance, everything was so theatrical.

I have read the exhumation reports, many children with skulls intact, so they were buried alive. In the book, there is the testimony of a soldier: the father was lying face down in the well, covering the child. The soldier was asked who was shot first, the father or the child. He replied: “Are we beasts, or what, to shoot a child in front of his father?” “A child doesn’t understand anything.”

In the book, your rhetorical question about how many gold teeth were taken from the murdered Jews, melted down and then used to make the teeth of the inhabitants of Joniškelis, sounds terrible. He was a murderer of Jews who then worked as a dental technician. Did Lithuanians share the gold crowns of the dead?

Not only in Joniškelis, but in many places. I remember that in Soviet times, when teeth were treated, people asked whether the gold would be yours or mine. Where did dental technicians get their gold? Where did all the gold crowns go?

There is an even more interesting point. I inherited an antique bed, a wardrobe and a clock from my grandparents. I read that there were about 50,000 Jewish homes throughout Lithuania, plus synagogues, shops, hospitals. Where did all this go? All of Lithuania became rich.

I read that in Panevėžys, things were given to the Drama Theater, to a nursing home, to a women’s gym, to a hospital and then sold to the residents. What could not be sold was given away. At the time of the murder of the Jews, there were 25,000 inhabitants in Panevėžys, and 80,000 belongings remained after the murder of the Jews, from bedding to cups. They gave themselves away. This means that each resident received several free things.

My grandmother is from Panevėžys, the bed is from Panevėžys. Did she buy it? I don’t know. Did my mother wear any of those clothes? All Lithuanians who have antiques may wonder where they come from. The murderers of Jews were not paid anything, they took what they could, took it to sell or exchanged it for vodka. That was his reward. At night they returned home. Some of them had children, and they didn’t come home from work empty-handed, they brought them clothes or something else.

When you read the book, you get the impression that the killers were simple village boys who volunteered for the Lithuanian army.

They went there on their own because they had nothing to do. At that time, there was a logic: they gave us food and shots. And you can also bring clothes, shoes, Jewish chains, drink. Rimantas Zagreckas conducted a study on the social portrait of the murderer of Jews: half of those killed in the province were illiterate or had completed two degrees. Maybe if the Church had taken a different stance or said that one of God’s commandments had to be obeyed, maybe that would have stopped them. But the Church was silent or did not call.

When you read the memoirs of the murderers of Jews, the conclusion suggests itself that the Germans did not force them to kill – they could have refused.

First of all, these were volunteers – and the white armbands who volunteered. Some claimed that refusal was threatened with execution, but there is only one fact – in Kaunas a soldier who refused to kill was shot in the Mickevicius Valley.

Eight vocational school students, 16-17 years old, served in the special detachment. June came, there was nothing to do, they went to work – they were promised Jewish things. Summer is over, they left the detachment. Is this violence – they came on their own, they left on their own.

In Lithuania they say that they forced people to kill and gave them water. Military officer Liaonas Stonkus said that if they saw that someone’s nerves could not stand it, the officers did not force them to shoot, they were afraid that the weapon would be turned against them. And they didn’t drink – they gave it after, in the evening, or very little – they were afraid that the commanders wouldn’t get shot. We can say that the Jews were killed by young, illiterate and sober Lithuanians.

You will be attacked for inconvenient truths and asked how you know what you are relying on?

In the book I do not rely on any foreign source, only on what is said by the residents of Lithuania and historians. I spent six months in the Special Archive, reading cases and their confessions. Whoever says that our boys were tortured and only after that they testified is nonsense, no one talks about torture. One murderer of Jews complained of pain in his shoulder, they took an x-ray, found out the cause, prescribed a massage and paraffin baths. Apparently he shot too much.

Secondly, the NKVD workers were consistent, accurate, each story of the killer of Jews was confirmed by the testimony of 15 more people, comrades-in-arms. Every detail matches. They all minimized their guilt. When asked how many times they had participated in executions, at first they did not remember, then they remembered one execution, but in fact they participated in 20 or 50.

Everyone minimized their guilt because they did not want to sit. After the war, the NKVD tried many for escorting, and 20-30 years later, when it turned out that they had been shot, they were arrested again.

To what extent, in your opinion, did the official position of the Lithuanian authorities determine the tragedy?

Determined in many ways. Many people say – the Lithuanian Activist Front started, the provisional government continued, and then the Nazi collaborators continued: Kubiljunas, Reivitis and others.

The Lithuanian administration employed 20,000 people: police officers, district police chiefs. Only 3% of them were Germans. There was a planned process carried out by the Lithuanians. Of course, it was not the Lithuanians who planned it, but they were told, they carried it out, they did everything so well that they later brought Jews from Austria and France to Lithuania to shoot.

At Fort IX, 5,000 Jews from Austria and the Czech Republic were shot. They were taken here for vaccination – the Jews went to the pits with their sleeves rolled up in anticipation of vaccination. The Lithuanians worked so well that Antanas Impulevičius’s battalion was taken to Belarus, where 15,000 Jews were killed. The Germans were very pleased.

Where does such diligence come from? Many people say that the Lithuanians suffered, occupation was replaced by occupation, it is not our fault, we suffered, we were taken to Siberia.

Yes, this is true, but no one forced them to shoot people. Volunteers showed up, partly because of widespread anti-Semitism.

So the Lithuanians killed Jews out of hatred? However, it seems that until now the Lithuanians coexisted peacefully with the Jews.

We had quite a lot of Woldemaras supporters, nationalists who were influential army officers. Many murderers of Jews are aviators, comrades of Darius and Girenas.

Under Smetona, it was possible to get along well with the Jews, but when the Germans came, Lithuanian nationalists joined them, and everything became very simple. And anti-Semitism – everything came from Berlin, Goebbels’ hand was felt there, the Lithuanians spread it. The first newspaper of the provisional government of Lithuania “Towards Freedom” wrote, down with the Jews, their corpses are our path to freedom. They talked about it on the radio and wrote in the newspapers. Two months were enough, then structures were created.
Without the approval of the Lithuanian government and without the connivance of Hitler, this would not have happened: we must admit, but we do not want to, that we have streets and schools named after Kazys Škirpa and Juozas Ambrazevičius.

Zuroff admitted that he did not realize that Lithuania at the dawn of independence was unable to come face to face with the past; even France took 50 years to admit its guilt for the pro-Hitler actions of the Vichy regime.

It will take us 90 years. Soon everyone will die, and my children’s generation will be interested, but there will be no more witnesses. That’s why I talked to the witnesses while they were alive. Let no one read this book, maybe it will be read in 10 or 15 years. I have fulfilled my duty to my country, even if she did not ask for it.

How can you know that in the building where the famous Panevėžys confectionery company is now located, there used to be a world-famous yeshiva, a religious school? There is no sign. Students and teachers from all over the world came here.

What do you think Lithuania would have been like if it had not exterminated its inhabitants?

I think we would have more scientists, great doctors. It would be a serious condition. But we wanted racial purity and their teeth.

You mentioned that you were disowned by your relatives. Did your family members participate in the Holocaust?

I don’t know. My grandfather participated in the commission that compiled a list of 10 Jews, and my aunt’s husband was the commander of the White Bracelets, he worked in the security structures in Panevėžys. I know that the entire Panevėžys police, under the influence of the Nazis, participated in this process. I know none of them pulled the trigger, otherwise I wouldn’t have written, it would have been too difficult for me. The Holocaust consists of two crimes. One is the involvement of the administration, making lists, etc., the other is assassination. I think if we all look at our relatives…

Are you prepared for Lithuania’s defamation accusations with the help of Zuroff?

But I have done something good: Zuroff will stop going to Lithuania. He understands that what I have done, what Ričardas Doveika and Tomas Šernas have said, what historians have done, he knows that we are on the right path. He cannot tell us anything new, it is up to the Lithuanians to discover their past.

Zuroff said that he had nothing more to do here: no foreigner could force Lithuania to look at his past.

https://rus.delfi.ee/statja/73518443/iz-za-knigi-o-genocide-evreev-v-litve-ot-ruty-vanagayte-otvernulis-rodnye-i-druzya

The “friendly” finland

When we think of Finland, we think of a peaceful, historically neutral country, hence the term Finnishization, to denote a neutrality par excellence, with high results in school tests of its educational system and that accepts a large percentage of immigration in relation to its population.

However, now that, together with Sweden, it abandons its historic neutrality and violates the 1954 treaty with Russia to remain neutral, it is convenient to review its behavior in the not so distant Second World War.

Finland was a part of the Russian Empire 1809–1917 and became an autonomic part of Imperial Russia , most of the laws from the time of the Swedish rule remained in force. During the Russian rule, Finland became a special region ,a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire, recognizing an autonomous parliament, the DietIn 1917 with the Russian Revolution Finland acceded to independence.

From november 30, 1939 to March 12, 1940, there was a war between Russia and Finland , finished with Russian victory and Finland surrendered a large area of southeastern Finland, including the city of Viipuri (renamed Vyborg), that before was Russian because Zar Alexander I incoporated to Finland en 1854, and leased the peninsula of Hanko to the Soviet Union for 30 years.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and with it began the Second World War, Finland allied with Germany against the USSR, collaborating on the northern front and in the siege of Leningrad where more than a million civilians died of starvation.

The behavior of the Finns with Russian civilians and with captured Soviet soldiers is completely ignored in the West and the testimonies that follow do not correspond to the image of that idyllic country that they want to present to us.

“The Red Army soldier Sergey Pavlovich Terentyev, who escaped from the captivity of the White Finns, spoke about the unbearable suffering of Soviet prisoners of war languishing in a camp near the city of Pitkyaranta. “In this camp,” Terentiev said, “wounded soldiers of the Red Army are kept. They are not provided with any kind of medical attention. … They gave us a cup of flour stew a day. The Finnish executioners devised a terrible torture for us. They girded the prisoner with barbed wire and dragged him along the ground. Every day, the corpses of tortured Soviet soldiers are carried out of the camp.” (From the message of the Soviet Information Office of October 7, 1942)

“The Red Army soldier Lazarenko, who fell into the clutches of the Mannerheims, was subjected to monstrous torture. Finnish executioners shoved cartridges into his nostrils and burned a five-pointed star on his chest with a red-hot ramrod. But even this did not seem enough for the vile sadists. They broke the skull of his victim and stuffed cookies inside. ” (Pravda, July 25, 1944)

Soviet prisoners of war in Finland. exhaustion swelling from hunger, dropsy.

“Dear Comrade Editor! Take a look at this photo. It shows the Finnish army lieutenant Olkinuorya. In his hands is the skull of a Red Army soldier tortured and killed by him. According to the prisoners testified, this uniformed beast decided to keep the skull of his victim “as a souvenir” and ordered the soldiers to boil it in a cauldron and clean it. And in the suitcase of the captured Finn Saari we found photographs like this. Saari tortured the prisoners, cutting off their arms and legs and ripping open their stomachs. He even established a system: he first cut off the feet, then the hands, then the shins, the forearms, and only then cut off the head. (From a letter of Senior Lieutenant V. Andreev, published in Komsomolskaya Pravda on August 11, 1944)

“…Many of the corpses found of tortured Soviet officers and soldiers have stab wounds, many had their ears and noses cut off, their eyes gouged out, their joints torn out, strips of skin and five stars were cut off. tips. out of body. Finnish monsters practiced burning people alive at the stake…

… The act and resolution of the military investigator on the corpse of an unknown Red Army soldier found on the shore of Lake Ladoga on June 25, 1944, boiled alive in a large iron barrel, testifies to what vile, sophisticated torture Finnish sadists get…

… A regime was established in the concentration camps, designed for the extinction of prisoners of war by a slow and painful death. They were hungry. The barracks in which the prisoners were placed, as a rule, were not heated all year round. The appallingly unsanitary living conditions of the prisoners of war and the rotten and inedible food were the cause of massive stomach and other illnesses. The most common disease, most often fatal, was general exhaustion …

… There are no isolated cases when the guards of the camps arranged vile and bloody fun, throwing dogs on defenseless people.

Soviet prisoner. Severe exhaustion, edema from hunger

Prisoners are used as experimental material in medical experiments. The Swedish newspaper Volksviljan wrote earlier this year: “It is known among Stockholm doctors that in Finland Russian prisoners of war are used as subjects of medical experiments. Finnish doctors use Russian prisoners of war to determine how much air can be injected into a person’s blood. This inflicts terrible torment on the victims during the “investigation”, after which death occurs. In experiments on Russian prisoners, they are also trying to find out how many drugs the human body can withstand. (From the Report on the atrocities of the White Finns in the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR, sent to the head of the GlavPU of the Red Army A.S. Shcherbakov by his deputy I.V. Shikin on July 28, 1944)

In June 2016, Finnish writer Petri Pietiläinen came up with the idea to publish the memoirs of surviving Soviet-Finnish veterans. Of the 70 men who fought in the First Infantry Regiment, only 30 were able to give an interview.

The talks with the military formed the basis of an article published this week on the website of Finnish broadcaster Yle. “30 Finnish veterans finally dare to speak out about the bloody battles of the Continuation War,” the headline read.

Despite being a very sensitive subject, this material is not full of aggression towards the Soviet Union. On the contrary, veterans painfully recall how they were ordered to brutalize soldiers and prisoners, condemn their military leadership and do not hide the fact that chaos and panic reigned in the ranks of the Finnish army during the war.*

*https://histrf.ru/read/articles/zimniaia-voina-panika-i-zhiestokost-finskoi-armii

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– Speaking about the horrors of that time, veterans often talked about war crimes against Soviet soldiers and prisoners of war, whom they “killed mercilessly.” “Some were able to take not one, but two prisoners, and then boasted that they ‘killed these filthy Russians’. Although many admit that these memories are very painful. Were the Finnish soldiers really not inferior to the Nazis in cruelty?

– Yes, there are confirmed cases, including documented ones, in particular, the extremely cruel massacre of the wounded during the liquidation of the encirclement of the Red Army in the Lemetti region (this is between Lake Ladoga and Onega). Relatively small garrisons held out there for a long time. When they were pressured, there was simply merciless retaliation, including from the injured. It was such a shameful stain that it remained on the Finnish army from the Winter War.

Sweden “ignored the greater moral issues of the war and played both sides for profit” ( W. Churchill)

Currently, when Sweden and Finland break with a centuries-old tradition of neutrality, it is interesting if that neutrality has been such throughout history, or is, like so many issues, a legend.

Let us examine the case of Sweden.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Sweden declared itself neutral the 1th September 1939. However, while the war lasted, Sweden carried out various actions that distanced it from neutrality, sometimes in favor of Germany, sometimes in favor of the allies. But the most serious was in favor of the Germans. Aid to the Germans mainly consisted of providing them with various raw materials, especially iron, and allowing the passage of their troops to Finland, which was an ally of Germany in the fight against the Soviet Union and which collaborated in the siege of Leningrad where hundreds of thousands of Russian civilians, elderly, women and children, died because of that siege.

Sweden in WWII

The biggest point concerning Swedish support for the Axis Powers, was the iron ore trade. Germany used this ore in its weapon production, and trade form Sweden to Germany eventually became so large that ten million tons of iron ore per year was to the Third Reich. The government did not interfere with the trade because of its official policy of neutrality. British intelligence had identified German dependency on this production of ore, and estimated that Germany’s preparations for war could end in disaster if there were to be a delay in exports. Of course this iron was for          German weapons.

Ernst Linder Commander Swedish Volunteers

Another point regarding support for the Axis Powers in WW2 concerns Operation Barbarossa, the German plan to invade the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941. The Germans asked the Swedes to allow German armed forces to be transported by train through Swedish land, from Norway to Finland. There was huge controversy surrounding what the government should do, and the political debates around the issue became known as the ‘Midsummer Crisis.’ This was the first point in the war where the Swedish government itself, as opposed to simply the people, was asked to reject its foreign policy of six hundred years.  In the end, permission was granted to Germany, and thus, the Swedish government showed opposition to its country’s long-held foreign policy.

Swedish Volunteers

Another point, although of lesser importance, was the contribution of Swedish volunteers to the armies of the Axis that were fighting against the Soviet Union. opposed to its official government policy, when called to fight in Finland, as many as 8,000 Swedes volunteered, and in response to German pleas for volunteers against the Soviet Union, around 180 Swedes joined the German Waffen-SS. It was always the individuals’ choice to enlist; however, the government also helped in ways such as sending food, ammunition, weapons and medicine to Finland during conflict. While the number of Swedish volunteers was comparatively small compared to some other nations, the country’s willingness to help in the war effort surely points to its obvious lack of neutrality. 

The actions in favor of the allies were much smaller, but one stands out for its humanity, which is giving refuge to the Jews who escaped from Denmark and other countries, and the actions of some Swedish diplomats who helped save Jews within the countries occupied by Germany. like Hungary. Diplomats such as Count Folke Bernadotte, who contributed to saving over 15,000 prisoners from concentration camps, Raoul Wallenberg, who saved up to 100,000 Hungarian Jews, and Werner Dankwort, who secretly helped Jewish children to escape to Sweden inside wooden crates, were able to use their statuses to communicate with the German government and pass information back to Sweden.

Count Folke Bernardotte

German telegrams passed through Swedish-leased cables, allowing the Swedes to intercept them, and due to Arne Beurling breaking the cypher code in summer 1940, the messages were understood and the Polish resistance movement conveyed these to the Allies. Another example is when the German battleship Bismarck set off to attack the Atlantic convoys, Swedish intelligence informed the British. In addition, Swedish businessmen, diplomats and emissaries actively spied for the Allies in cities such as Berlin.

On June 13, 1944, a V2 rocket being tested by the Germans crashed in Sweden and they exchanged its wreckage with Britain for Supermarine Spitfires. It seems that rarely did the Swedes act altruistically as Churchill said.

Finns are also genocidal

One of the aspects that surprised me the most about the Second World War is that apparently democratic countries helped the German Nazis and/or committed genocide together with them. Sweden and Finland are examples of this.

  We have seen that the Germans created extermination camps all over Europe, including in Trieste (Italy), but few people know about the concentration camps built and run by the Finns.

These camps were organized by the armed forces supreme commander Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , by the way former tsarist officer. The camps were intended to hold Russian  detainees for future exchange with theFinnic  population from the rest of Russia. The mortality rate  of civilians in the camps was high due to famine and disease.In 2004-2008, the Finnish National Archives conducted a special research to investigate the history  of people who died in Finnish concentration camps and during the war in 1939-1955. According to the research, 4,279 people died in the concentration camps of Eastern Karelia during the war, meaning a rough mortality rate of 17%.

Karelia ( Russia)

Mannerheim and Hitler

After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Finns retook the territory lost after the Winter War and occupied eastern Karelia as well. This action made Finland a co-belligerent with Germany against the Soviet Union. During the war, Finland opened between 15 and 20 labor camps in occupied eastern Karelia where Soviet civilians were forced to harvest timber, build roads, and carry out other similar tasks. Children were forced to harvest willow bark, which was used to tan leather.

Russian children in Finnish concentration camp

Significant numbers of Soviet civilians were interned in the camps. These were primarily Russian children and elderly, as almost all of the working age male and female population were either drafted or evacuated by the Soviet government. Only a third of the original population of 470,000 remained in East Karelia when the Finnish army arrived, and half of them were Karelians. About 30 percent (24,000) of the remaining Russian population were confined in camps; six-thousand of them were Soviet refugees captured while they awaited transportation over Lake Onega , and 3,000 were from the southern side of the River Svir. The first of the camps were set up on 24 October 1941 in Petrozavodsk. During the spring and summer of 1942, about 3,500 detainees died of malnutrition. During the second half of 1942, the number of detainees dropped quickly to 15,000 as people were released to their homes or were resettled to the “safe” villages, and only 500 more people died during the last two years of war, as the food shortages were alleviated. During the following years, the Finnish authorities detained several thousand more civilians from areas with reported partisan activity, but as the releases continued the total number of detainees remained at 13,000–14,000. According to the records the total number of deaths among the interned civilians and POWs was 4,361 (earlier estimates varied between 4,000 and 7,000), mostly from hunger during the spring and summer of 1942

Petrozavodsk camp

An article about the camps:

https://iz.ru/1011186/vladimir-veretennikov/kholodnaia-merzost-chto-tvorili-finny-v-kontclageriakh-vo-vremia-vtoroi-mirovoi

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case for genocide in the Republic of Karelia during the occupation by Finland in 1941-1944. The Finns established 14 concentration camps, in which at least 8,000 civilians died and more than 7,000 Soviet POWs were murdered in the most barbaric ways. The Finns are trying to deny these allegations, prompting condemnation from the Moscow Human Rights Office. Izvestia is about a page in the history of the war, which our northern neighbors try hard to forget.

Russian children in concentration camp

Judging by recently released archival documents, there were at least fourteen large concentration camps in Finland and six in occupied Petrozavodsk alone. The Finns also established more than 30 labor camps and more than 40 prisoner of war camps. In total, during the occupation of Karelia from 1941 to 1944, more than 24 thousand people – prisoners of war and members of the civilian population – found themselves behind barbed wire.

The number of victims among civilians is estimated at 8 thousand people, including more than 2 thousand children. More than 7,000 prisoners of war, according to the Commission of Inquiry, “were buried alive, murdered in gas chambers, and shot.” Even now, more than 2,000 former underage prisoners of Finnish concentration camps live in Karelia, direct witnesses of the atrocities committed there.

From the certificate of the People’s Commissar for State Security of the Karelia-Finnish SSR, Mikhail Baskakov, dated July 3, 1943, it appears that at least 24 Finnish servicemen are responsible for organizing the massacres. Among them are the head of the East Karelian military administration (the military administration of the occupied territory), Lieutenant Colonel Kotilainen, his assistant, Lieutenant Colonel Ragnar Nordstrom, the chief of staff of the military administration, Lieutenant Colonel Kuusilu, and the district chiefs, , Vyasyanen and Paloheimo. The commandant of the Petrozavodsk concentration camp Valentin Miks, as well as the assistant to the head of the Svyatozersk concentration camp, junior sergeant Polevoy, were named direct perpetrators of the acts of genocide. As far as is known, most of them escaped punishment for their actions.

Giving food

The Finnish side is trying to dispute these accusations. The director of the National Archives of Finland, Jussi Nuorteva, called the statement of the Russian Investigative Committee “unexpected and regrettable”, assuring that the Finns did not kill people in gas chambers and did not bury them alive. Furthermore, he denies the figure of 8,000 dead civilians. “In our files the exact figure is given with all the names. There were 4,060 deaths”, says Nuorteva.

Russian children in the camp

The Finnish press also published the opinion of Professor Dmitry Frolov, an employee of the National Archives of Finland. “We have free access to all the data that we share with the Russian side. Therefore, one can only wonder where they get such information from, ”Frolov said. He is referring to a database of dead Soviet prisoners of war and civilians, which is freely available on the Internet, created by the national archive.

“In 2010-2011, we handed over to the Russian side copies of the registration cards of Soviet prisoners of war who died in Finnish camps. According to Finnish data, 1998 Soviet POWs died in the Karelian camps. The total number of prisoners killed in 1941-1944 was about 20,000. In this regard, the figure of 7,000 people in Karelia alone causes some bewilderment. Information about the causes of death and burial places is in the database, ”Frolov assures.

Genocide policy

So where is the truth? Izvestia turned to the director of the Institute of History, Political and Social Sciences of Petrozavodsk State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergei Gennadievich Verigin.

Killer Lieutenant Colonel Ragnar Nordstrom  Notice the German Iron Crosses

Professor Verigin has long been involved in the issue of Finnish concentration camps in Karelia, and this is what he said: “In the entire territory of Karelia, which at that time was inhabited by only 86 thousand people, the Finns they created more than a hundred places of forced detention of the local population. These are concentration camps for the civilian population, labor camps, concentration camps for prisoners of war, prisons and other places of detention. To be honest, it is even difficult for me Name any other occupied territory where such a high density of camps was created for its inhabitants during World War II.

Killer Lieutenant Colonel Kotilainen

The scientist emphasizes that people were forcibly placed in camps, where a half-starved existence, forced labor, intimidation, unsanitary conditions and disease awaited them. The prisoners died in large numbers. The Finns did not engage in mass executions or village burnings, as the Nazis practiced. However, the Finnish occupiers did not need mass executions. People died a natural death, due to the conditions in which they were placed. In 1942, the death rate in the Finnish concentration camps was even higher than in the German ones.

Verigin adds that he cannot agree with the position of Finnish historians on a number of issues related to the occupation of Karelia. “They claim that the documents that were transferred to the Karelia National Archives contain the names of some 4,000 people who died in the concentration camps. But, firstly, these are data from February 1942 to June 1944. – and people died in the second half of 1941. Secondly, the lists themselves were sloppy, we see a lot of names crossed out. For the Finns, dead Russians were not a major problem. We still do not know the exact figure – how many civilians died in the concentration camps in the occupied territory of Karelia. The same applies to the number of prisoners of war who died in the Karelian concentration camps.Antti Laine points out that the Finns have created a school and a social network. But he deceives the readers: this network was created only for the Finno-Ugric population of Karelia! When “full-fledged” Karelian and Vepsian children went to school, attended kindergartens, were treated in outpatient clinics and medical centers, Russian children starved to death in concentration camps.

Exhumation of bodies, many bodies of children are observed

Long range goals

A similar point of view was expressed to Izvestiya by the historian, writer, director of the Military Museum of the Karelian Isthmus, Bair Irincheev, who specializes in the topic of the Soviet-Finnish wars. “In the interpretation of the events of 1941-1944, there are significant differences between the historians of Russia and Finland. But there are facts that neither the Finnish nor the Russian side deny. The Finns hoped that Karelia would become part of their state forever and ever, and they considered that part of its population that did not belong to the Finns as an unnecessary and harmful element. No one can deny this now.

On the other hand, as I understand it, they wanted to leave all the dirty work to the Germans. Why, in fact, did the Finns put the “wrong” population in concentration camps? Because they wanted to wait for the final crushing of the Soviet Union to send the Slavic population of Karelia to the territory of Russia occupied by the Nazis, to the Reichskommissariat “Moscow” or elsewhere. Do what you want with them, they say… In addition, the Finns practiced the exchange of Soviet prisoners of war with the Germans: they say, give us our Finno-Ugric peoples, and in return they take political officials and Jews. The Finns, in the order of such an exchange, handed over to the Germans about two thousand people, who, it seems, were immediately shot,” said the specialist.

According to Irincheev, Finland blames Soviet intelligence groups for about 187 deaths of its civilians, but is silent about the “exploits” of its similar formations. “But in a Petrovsky Pit, 28 Soviet hospital medical staff were killed by Finnish saboteurs!” Irincheev emphasized.

In conclusion, it should be noted that in 2018 the Finnish National Archives began an investigation into the participation of volunteers from this country, who fought in the ranks of the SS, in the murders of the civilian population of the Soviet Union. Not everyone knows that the Finnish military unit of 1408 people operated in 1941-1943 in Ukraine and the Caucasus. It was part of the “Viking” Panzer SS Division, which included volunteers from different European countries.

Based on the results of the study of the diaries of the volunteers, a report was prepared indicating that the Finns who served on the Viking knew about the crimes of the German Nazis and participated in them themselves. Historian Jussi Nuorteva quotes an entry from the diary of SS Unterscharführer Keijo Kayariainen, made on June 23, 1941: “Today we received instructions on the conduct of hostilities: among other things, to shoot all prisoners.”

SS Unterscharführer Jaakko Hintikka described in his diary a battle near the village of Toldzgun in North Ossetia: “Five spies in civilian clothes were captured and finished off. At sunset, they took him to the mountain and shot him. A couple more prisoners were added to them. It was hard work, they kept asking for mercy, but the automaton knows no mercy. The youngest was 17 years old, the next – 20 years old, the rest – bearded grandparents. The youngest was shot last, first he buried his comrades, and then he himself went to the other world. Such evidence in occupant records is abundant.

For to know more

It may be that after learning this, your opinion about the friendly, civilizated and no longer neutral Finns will change

Murders of Poles by Ukrainians

 Within the multiple tragedies of WWII, what happened in Eastern Europe are among the cruelest and bloodiest. Curiously, today homage is paid to genocidal people such as the Ukrainian Bandera and to Nazis in the artificial Batic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

We are going to remember some drops of the sea of blood that they committed.

From the book 

FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE. “Volyn massacre” 1943-1944. Documents and research

Alexander Dyukov.Alexei Yakovlev

In the spring of 1943, a large-scale ethnic cleansing began in Volyn, occupied by German troops. This criminal action was carried out not by the Nazis, but by the militants of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who sought to “cleanse” the territory of Volhynia from the Polish population. Ukrainian nationalists surrounded Polish villages and colonies and then proceeded to kill. They killed everyone: women, old people, children, babies. The victims were shot, beaten with clubs, hacked down with axes. Then the corpses of the destroyed Poles were buried somewhere in the field, their property was stolen, and finally the houses were burned down. In place of Polish villages, only burnt-out ruins remained.

They also destroyed the Poles who lived in the same villages as the Ukrainians. It was even easier – there was no need to collect large detachments. Groups of multi-person OUN members passed through the sleeping village, entered the houses of the Poles and killed everyone. And then the locals buried the murdered neighbors of the “wrong” nationality.

In this way, several tens of thousands of people were murdered, whose only fault was that they were born Poles and lived on Ukrainian soil.

65 years after these tragic events, they are trying to forget about the victims of Ukrainian nationalists in both Poland and Ukraine. It is understandable why the Volyn tragedy is consigned to oblivion in Ukraine: the OUN-UPA militants, who actively and brutally destroyed the Volyn Poles, were declared “national heroes” by modern Ukrainian authorities and one of the main organizers of the Volyn Massacre. , Roman Shukhevych, received the title of Hero of Ukraine. However, things are not much better in Poland either. The Polish authorities constantly bring claims against Russia in connection with the execution of Polish officers in Katyn, however, the OUN-UPA militants do not seek to recall the much more massive destruction of Polish civilian citizens. On the 65th anniversary of the Volyn massacre, the Polish Sejm rejected a draft resolution prepared by the Polish Peasant Party, in which the OUN and UPA were accused of genocide and massacres of Poles and Ukrainians. Polish President Lech Kaczynski did not participate in the events dedicated to this date, limiting himself to a letter of duty to his participants. In addition, the head of the Polish state generally refused patronage of “Volyn events”.

Completely wild interpretations began to sound; Marshal of the Pole Sejm Bronislaw Komorowski said that the Soviet Union was to blame for the Volyn tragedy. “For me, the attempt to shift the responsibility for the misfortunes of the Polish Kresses to someone other than the Soviets is completely unacceptable. I consider the attempt to establish Kresovyak Day on the anniversary of the Volyn tragedy as an attempt to shift responsibility onto the Ukrainians. I can not agree with this. The Memorial Day of the Kresses is on September 17, that is, the anniversary of the Soviet invasion in 1939. The attempt to transfer responsibility from the Soviets to the Ukrainians makes me wonder if we are dealing here with the long arms of Russia.” . [1]The statement is absolutely absurd, if only because it was the Soviet partisans who defended the Volyn Poles from Bandera attacks, and it was in the Polish villages that the Soviet partisans received full-scale support.

Historical amnesia is a serious disease typical of politicians. However, the prevalence does not make it any less disgusting. The desire to speculate on some of their victims while forgetting about others; the transformation of cruel murderers into national heroes is petty and insulting to all those who died sixty-five years ago.

Interrogation by the Russian army of Ukrainian murderers 

5. From the interrogation protocol of the UPA militant Vladimir Dubinchuk, August 6, 1944

Question: He is accused of the crimes that he committed under art. Art. 54-1 “a” and 54-11 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. Does he plead guilty to the charges against him?

Answer: Yes, in the accusation against me under art. Art. 54-1 “a” and 54-11 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, I plead fully guilty and, on the merits of the case, prove that, living in the German-occupied with. Svichev, Ovadnovsky district, Volyn region, really was in June 1943 a stanitsa in the village. Svichev Tsibulya Dmitry participated in the OUN as a liaison and, on his instructions, for about four months he delivered the OUN correspondence to Gud Andrei and the people. Vladislavovka to Joseph Lupinka.

Ukrainians parading in front of the Germans

In the summer of 1943, actually, he was armed with a rifle in town. Svichev from the Ovadnovsky district, together with the OUN bandits, participated in the massacre of Soviet citizens of Polish nationality. It was under the following circumstances: in the summer of 1943, I do not remember the exact date, in the morning the chief Tsibulya Dmitry summoned me to the village council and instructed me to go to the road not far from the church and wait for a cart with OUN bandits who would come from the Vladimir-Volynsky region, and when they arrive, sit in their wagons and point out the houses where Poles live, including the task of pointing out to the bandits the property of Dmitri Ilyashuk.

Pursuant to Dmitry Tsibul’s order, I took a rifle with me and went to the indicated place to wait for the bandits. At approximately 11 p.m. Svichev arrived in a car with five or six OUN gang members, who were armed with rifles. I personally recognized Joseph Lupinka from the village among the bandits. Vladislavovka, Vladimir-Volynsky district and Vasily from the village. Khobolitov, the rest of the bandits were not familiar to me. When I met with the bandits, I sat in a cart with them and drove them to the property of a village resident. Svichev – Il-yashuk Dmitry.

When we reached the Ilyashuk yard, Korchik Ivan and the second, armed with a rifle, I don’t know his last name, who lived in the village at that time, were already there. Svichev, armed with a sawed-off rifle.

Polish children killed by the Ukrainians

Arriving in the courtyard, the bandits from the Ilyashuk estate discovered the Poles Rusetsky and Kryshtov, who were taken to Ilyashuk’s unfinished house and shot there. I personally did not see how they were shot, because I was in the yard near the car, and when they were killed, I went to look at them. Then I learned from the bandits that Ivan Korchik shot Rusetsky, and the bandit Vasily shot Kryshtov. After the execution of these two Poles, Dmitry Ilyashuk came home, who invited all the participants in the pogrom, including me, to the apartment, where he treated me to vodka and dinner. After dinner, all the troublemakers, including me, went to the estate of Savitsky Olesko, who lived next door to Ilyashuk. I don’t remember which of the bandits took Olesko Savitsky, his mother and his sister Bronislava out of the apartment into the courtyard, whom I shot in the courtyard on the orders of the bandit Lupinok.

After the execution of the Savitsky family, all the above-mentioned pogromists, including me, sat in a cart and went to kill Poles in the Yadvigov colony of the Svichevsky village council.

Arriving at the colony, we drove to the estate of the Pole Kishko, where the old man Kishko himself was in the yard, and he was blind. All the bandits were sitting in one cart, I entered the courtyard and shot this old man from the rifle that he had, after which, leaving the corpse in his place, we all went to the house of Anton Soshinsky.

We searched Soshinsky’s house, but did not find anyone. After that, we came to the house of the Pole Pnyak, who lived at the end of the colony. When we began to drive to this estate, we noticed that several Poles ran out of Pnyak’s house in the direction of the forest, we all jumped out of the cart and began to chase the fleeing and opened fire on them. However, at that time we did not manage to kill and catch up with any of the Poles, as they hid in the forest. After that, we searched the property of Pnyak.

Poles killed by the Ukrainians

When we returned to Svichev, I don’t remember, someone told us that his children were hiding in Anton Soshinsky’s house. Bandit Lupinka gave me the order to kill these children. When the accomplices were near the car, I ran to the house of Anton Soshinsky and shot a boy of about five years old. There were two other children in the room, but the cartridge I had left failed. After that, I left the apartment and reported this to Joseph Lupinka, who gave me two cartridges and an order to kill these children. I entered the room for the second time and shot the second child, about two years old. At that moment, Iosif Lupinka entered the apartment and, in my presence, shot the third child, who was between 6 and 7 years old.

After the execution of the sons of Soshinsky Anton, I, together with the bandits, returned to the village. Svichev, and we immediately went to the estate of the citizen Yarmolinskaya Mayevskaya. Lupinka Iosif Maevskaya and I were found in a neighboring house, after which she was taken to her property, where I personally shot her. We also leave this corpse on the spot and go to the building of the village council. Bandits Lupinka Iosif, Vasily Torchilo, Golumbitsky, I don’t even know the last name went to the Polish cemetery. There, Lupinka and Torchilo killed a Dobrovolskaya citizen, whose corpse was also left on the spot. On her way back, Lupinka entered the priest’s house, took the housekeeper, after which he took her to the neighboring estate and shot her in the same courtyard. After this murder, all the bandits of Vl. – The Volynsky district got into a cart and left in the direction of the Bozhya Volya colony. This was the end of the pogrom of the Poles in the village. Svichev.

Original sources

The Baltic countries, artificial countries full of nazis (III) Estonia

The more you delve into the history of these pseudo countries, the more disgust you feel. Let’s remember that Estonia only has 1,329,000 inhabitants (2021 census) and about a third of its inhabitants are Russian-speaking.

Estonia

She never was independent, except few years after the Russian Revolution, always was  ruled by the  Teutonic Order, Denmark, Sweden and from XVIII century of the Russian Empire. In other words, since approximately the time the United States has existed, Estonia has been Russian.

In the few periods in which Estonia has been independent, its history is stained with crimes and attacks on human rights. During WWII she collaborated with the German Nazis in the murder of Jewish men, women and children and since 1991 she has constantly violated the human rights of her Russian-speaking population and praised the Nazis in marches and monuments.

The curious thing is that few of these crimes transcend abroad and it intends to present itself as a young nation, clean and dedicated to new technologies.

Estonia in Europe

Even Amnesty International has called, to no avail, for the Estonian government to end discrimination against Russian-speakers.

Discrimination on Russian population

The extermination of Jews in Estonian cities was carried out by SS troops, local political police, security police, and detachments of the Estonian paramilitary organization Omakaitse. The Omakaitse and the political police were led by Colonel Johannes Soodla. Einsatzgruppe A units appeared in Estonia on July 10, 1941. Already in August 1941, all the Jews who remained in Tartu were exterminated – approximately 40-50 people  . In Pärnu, Jewish men were killed in the first days of the occupation, women and children after 6 weeks. Then began the extermination of the Tallinn Jews  .

Johannes Soodla

On September 10, 1941, the commander of SS Standartenführer Einsatzkommando 1A, Martin Sandberger, issued an order according to which the “cleansing” of Estonia of the Jews was entrusted to units from Omakaitse.

As noted in the materials of the International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity [in] under the auspices of the President of Estonia, the Estonian police were directly involved not only in the protection of the Vaivara concentration camps, in Tartu, Jägala, Tallinn, and Soviet POW camps, in which numerous executions of prisoners took place, but also accompanied Vilnius Jews to concentration camps in Estonia, as well as guarding a transfer camp for Jews in Izbica (Poland). ), where a significant number of Jews were murdered, and Jewish ghettos in Lodz, Przemysl, Rzeszów and Tarnopol [18] .

Estonian assassins not only murdered in Estonia

In August 1942, soldiers and officers of the 36th Police Battalion, formed in early 1942 by volunteers on Estonian territory (Tartu, Kuressaare, Hiiumaa, Saaremaa), took part in an action to exterminate the Jewish population near the city of Novogrudok (Belarus).

According to the testimony of former protesters detained after the war, on August 3-4, the entire 36 police battalion was sent to Belarus, where it was unloaded at the Novoelnya station, sent to Novogrudok and placed in barracks on the outskirts of the city. The soldiers of this battalion carried out mass executions in the Novogrudok area, the Novoelnya station and near the village of Dyatlovo, 20-30 kilometers from Novogrudok. At night, the police cordoned off the houses, herded the residents, including women and children, into the square, forced them to lie face down on the ground while they waited for the load, and then, in the morning, trucked them to the places. run in separate batches. The detainees themselves were forced to dig ditches, into which the executed were then thrown. In total, in the Novogrudok area, according to the detainees, about 1,000 people were killed, in the village of Dyatlovo – from 1,000 to 1,500 people. 

Klooga concentration camp

Among the many atrocities committed by Estonians and their German partners is the Klooga concentration camp.

It is estimated that 1,800–2,000 prisoners perished at Klooga from wanton killings, epidemics and working conditions. Most of them were Jews. The entire camp was enclosed by barbed wire. The men’s and women’s camps, which were separated by some 600 yards, had large two-story buildings for housing the prisoners. German SS units and members of the 287th Estonian Police Battalion served as guards. Prisoners were forced to work  in peat harvesting as well as in the camp cement works, sawmills, brickworks, and factory, which manufactured clogs for camp prisoners.

Klooga concentration camp

From 19–22 September 1944, with the perimeter of the camp guarded by 60–70 Estonian recruits to the 20th SS Division, a German task force began systematically slaughtering the remaining prisoners in a nearby forest. According to Ruth Bettina Birtn  the execution of 2,000 prisoners was conducted byEstonian soldiers of 20th SS Division  and presumably Schutzmannschaft Battalion under German command.

According to Soviet sources, approximately 2,000 were shot, then their bodies were stacked onto wooden pyres and burned. On 22 September 1944, when Soviet troops reached the Klooga camp, only 85 of the 2,400 prisoners remaining post-evacuation had managed to survive by hiding inside the camp or escaping into the surrounding forests. The liberation forces found numerous pyres of stacked corpses left unburned by the camp’s guards when they fled

Klooga concentration camp

  As is often the case in the history of World War II atrocities committed by the Germans and their murderous accomplices like the Estonians, few were punished, many fled, and surprisingly some were protected not only by the West German government but by England that refused to hand over or even punish notorious war criminals such as Ain Mere the German Security Police in Estonia, headed by Mere  to have been actively involved in the arrest and killing of Estonian Jews along with Ralf Gerrets  and Jaan Viik .  Though at the time he was residing in Britain , Mere was sentenced to death for his role during the war. The British government  refused to extradite him, citing a lack of evidence on the part of the Soviet authorities, and he died at the age of 66 in Leiceste. England .

Ain Mere

Fortunately his accomplices Ralf Gerrets and Jaan Viik were captured, tried and executed.

Estonian war criminals on trial

And despite this bloody history of which this is just a small piece, Estonians in general, with their government at their head, are not only unrepentant but also extol their Nazi past.

Plaque honoring SS officer in Estonia

As in the other Baltic countries, this bloody past is intended to be forgotten and Russia is criminalized, without differentiating the Soviet Union from Russia today, which shows that it is not a hatred of communism but a hatred of Russia through generations, and forgetting that the liberators of the concentration camps and the few survivors were the Russians. While the censorship of those who think differently and the oppression of Russian-speakers is growing in the face of the indifference of the European Union.

The Baltic countries, artificial countries full of Nazis (II). Latvia

We talked in the previous post about Nazi politicians or with Nazi sympathies in Lithuania, now it’s Latvia’s turn.

As we mentioned, these pseudo countries were never really independent, they were always part of Germany or Russia or other countries, in the last 500 years, but the communist rulers took advantage of the fall of the USSR to create their own garden where they and their relatives and acquaintances ruled and not someone from outside.

In the brief period in which they were independent from the Russian revolution to WWII, from 1920 to 1940, their history could not be more painful, collaborators with the Nazis and willing murderers of the Jews. Curiously now they want all that to be forgotten.

One example : 

The Rumbula massacre* is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during the   Holocaust. Except for the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine , this was the biggest two-day Holocaust atrocity until the operation of the death camps  . About 24,000 of the victims were Latvian Jews from the Riga Guetto  and approximately 1,000 were German Jews  transported to the forest by train. The Rumbula massacre was carried out by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe A with the help of local collaborators of the Arajs Kommando , with support from other such Latvian auxiliaries. In charge of the operation

Herberts Cukurs

 was Hoherer SS und Plizeifuhrer Friedich Jeckeln, who had previously overseen similar massacres in Ukraine . Rudolf Lange , who later participated in the Wannsee Cogferrence  , also took part in organizing the massacre. Some of the accusations against Latvian Herberts Cukurs are related to the clearing of the Riga Ghetto by the Arajs Kommando. 

* Wikipedia

Latvian Nazi colaborators

There were many others massacresLiepaja Massacres, Daugavpils Ghetto, Jelgava Massacres, Burning of the Riga Synagogues, Dünamünde, etc.

A personal testimony

Professor Vaira Vike-Freiberga plays an essential role in this mechanism. The family of this Canadian, who fled Latvia when the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler fell, was linked to the Nazi agents of NATO’s stay-behind networks through a clandestine association Nazi agents of NATO’s stay-behind networks through a clandestine association

Vaira Vike-Freiberga

 destined to the Diaspora: the Hawks of Daugava River (Daugavas Vanagi). Meanwhile, the family of her husband, Imants Freibergs, was linked to the MI6 in Germany at the end of World War II. Vike-Freiberga, Psychology professor at the University of Toronto, specialist in the influence of drugs on human behavior, settled in Riga in early 1999 and acquired the Latvian citizenship. Then, in the spring, she was elected President of the Republic, winning a second term four years later. 
The Latvian Legion was created in January 1943 on the orders of Adolf Hitler following a request by Heinrich Himmler , the head of the SS . The initial core of the force was populated by Latvian Police Batallions 

L, which were formed starting in 1941 earlier for security duties and already serving on the Eastern Front under Wehrmacht command. While members of Holocaust collaborator Arajs Kommando  were subsequently joined to the Legion, this was late in the war as the Kommando was demobilized from anti-partisan and anti-Jewish action, with the first former Arajs unit attached to the Legion in December, 1944

The Latvian Legion

 In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal  declared the Waffen-SS to be a criminal organization. The participation of some members of the legion in The Holocaust , including 600 were also members of the Arajs Kommando , and the legion’s inclusion of members of the Latvian fascist movement Perkonkrusts and Holocaust participants, has led to accusations that, under international military law, the legion met the criteria for a criminal organization  and/or that a significant proportion of its members, were directly or indirectly involved in war crimes. It has also been claimed that soldiers of the legion were involved in a massacre of Polish POWs at Podgaje , in 1945.Scholars such as Leanid Kazyrytski have argued that the Latvian Legion does possess all the features of a criminal organisation, as defined by the Tribunal.

March of veterans of Latvian Legion and suppotters

Despite all of the above,although it may seem incredible the Latvian governments continue to support the exaltation of war criminals through marches and monuments and violating the rights of the Russian-speaking population in the face of the indiffe

The Baltic countries, artificial countries full of Nazis. Lithuania.

The Baltic countries, artificial countries full of Nazis

 The so-called Baltic countries. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the last 500 years were never independent being part of Germany or Russia most of the time.

Currently, after their independence, they have important Russian minorities within them.

 Estonia with 1,329,000 inhabitants has 500,000 inhabitants of Russian descent, 37.6% of the population.

Latvia with 1.883.000 inhabitants has 37,2% of Russian descent population , and Lithuania with 2.795.000 inhabitants have about 15% of inhabitants of Russian descent.

As we can see, they are important minorities and what a normal person can expect is that minorities be respected for peaceful coexistence, but unfortunately this is not the case.

The behavior of the Baltics towards the Russian-speaking minorities is atrocious, violates all human rights and what is more serious, the European Union and the United Nations Organization turn a blind eye towards this behavior.

As simple examples we can mention that thousands of Russian-speaking inhabitants who were not only born in the Baltic countries, but also their parents and grandparents, lack a passport, citizenship and the right to vote. This violates the most elementary human rights and is an ethnic selection.

Why do the Balts ethnically segregate and pay periodic tributes to Nazi Germans?

let’s see a small sample of some of the rulers of these artificial mini-states, beggining with Lithuania.

Valdas Adamkus

Valdas Adamkus. Was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2009.

During the Nazi occupation he served as an assistant to the criminal Antanas Impulevicius, whose detachment, by order of the Nazis, massacred Jews in the Minsk ghetto. However, this did not prevent Western “democrats” from conferring the title of “UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador” on Valdas Adamkus in 2003 and giving him many orders.

Jews in the Mins Guetto

In this case, they do not care that during the period of his presidency this “goodwill ambassador” managed to posthumously reward a war criminal, priest Jonas Žvinis, posthumously promote Lithuanian policeman , who distinguished himself during the years of war in operations to exterminate the peaceful population in Belarus.

Astanas Impolevicius

Other President of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019 Dalia Grybauskaitė    She also “sympathizes” with the neo-Nazi spirit. Moreover, not so long ago, as in 2012, this lady achieved an honorary reburial of the remains of such a figure as Juozas Ambrazevicius. This figure, in the rank of head of the puppet government of Lithuania during the years of Nazi occupation in 1941, created and supervised the first concentration camp for the Jewish population in Kovno (Kaunas ) with his own Lithuanian administration. Like so many Nazi criminals, he emigrated to the United States Interestingly, Dalia Grybauskaitė  from 1983 to December 1989, she was a member of the communist party, which shows that these small countries are actually private estates of the communists, and their descendants, who ruled them when they became independent, as has happened with all the republics that became independent from the USSR .Kovno Massacre

Dalia Grybauskaitė   

 The Soviet army liberated Kovno on August 1, 1944. Of Kovno’s few Jewish survivors, 500 had survived in forests or in bunkers. Germans evacuated an additional 2,500 to concentration camps in Germany.

Juozas Ambrazevicius

Jewish Protests

Kovno Guetto

The small population and size of these artificial countries would make their survival almost impossible were it not for Western aid to employ them, like Poland, against Russia and as launderers of dirty money for multiple businesses.In addition to violating the human rights of Russian speakers, these artificial countries have become tax havens for criminals and corruption scandals, little known in the West, like everything that happens there, multiply. We will deal with them in other articles.

Lithuanian Gobernmant collaborator of Nazis German

THE LATVIAN COLLABORATORS OF THE GERMAN NAZIS

 An article of Red Voltaire* very interesting.Among other topics such as the glad collaboration of the Latvians with the German Nazis, it shows that the Germans extracted blood from prisoners until their death for their wounded soldiers.

* https://www.voltairenet.org/article217384.html

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has declassified and published on its website the interrogation records of Latvian Nazi collaborators.

These revelations come as the actions of the Banderites in Ukraine are largely glossed over and as those of the Latvian collaborators are also greatly underestimated.

These documents reveal that, contrary to what is generally believed, in Latvia the mass murder of Jews and Roma by the Nazi regime began in July 1941, well ahead of the Wansee conference of 20 January 1942. They also indicate that the massacres of Jews and political opponents reached far greater proportions than is generally acknowledged. Finally, they attest that the Nazi leaders themselves were shocked by the cruelty of the Latvian volunteers.

In December 1941, the 30,000 Jews in the Riga ghetto were all exterminated. The Latvian Sonderkommando Arājs unit guarding the Salaspils concentration camp executed 30,000 prisoners. It set up a “blood factory” in which prisoners, mainly children, were bled every two days until they died from exhaustion for the needs of the Wehrmacht. 46,000 civilians, including 12,000 Jews, were brought to Latvia from Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia to be killed in Biķernieki Forest. 105,000 people out of 120,000 were murdered by Latvians in the Minsk ghetto (now Belarus). The Red Army discovered mass graves in Latvia containing more than 300,000 bodies.

The Latvian parliament (Saeimā) has just passed a law ordering the dismantling of all monuments honoring the Red Army no later than 15 November 2022. The Latvian government continues to pay tribute to Nazi collaborators in Latvia and Ukraine.

More information

http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/history/archival_material/Arays.htm

The Russian effort to care for children orphaned in the war

 WWII was a disaster for Russia, let us remember that 27 million of its inhabitants died in it, about 10 millions soldiers the rest normal citizens, among them millions of children and many were orphaned, the effort of the Russians to take care of them in the midst of this maelstrom and with scarce financial resources is commendable . 

In addition, the Germans in the rear  treated the children with all cruelty. “… Often, due to entertainment, a group of Germans on vacation would organize a détente: they would throw a piece of bread, children would run towards it, and machine-gun fire would follow. How many children died because of such amusements of the Germans throughout the country! Bloated with hunger, the children were able to take something, without understanding, edible from the German, and then there was a line from the machine gun. And the boy ate forever! (Solokhina N.Ya., Kaluga region, Lyudinovo, from the article “We do not come from childhood”, “World of News”, No. 27, 2010, p. 26).

Therefore, Red Army units passing through these places were sensitive to these guys and often carried them with them and after to the orphanages.

Here we will cite some small examples of their great effort.*

*https://www.archive-nnov.ru/?id=7633

The sudden outbreak of the Great Patriotic War found many children during their summer vacations in pioneer camps, sanatoriums and dachas. From its earliest days, the country’s government and local leaders had to urgently deal with the evacuation of children from the frontline and from inland frontline areas, including the Gorky region.

Evacuation to Gorky

Already on August 27, 1941, 125,600 evacuees arrived in the Gorky region, including 70,000 children, of whom 3,500 had no parents. From the Union Republics of Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Karelo-Finland, Moscow, Murmansk and other cities, 13 kindergartens, 9 pioneer camps and sanatoriums, 10 orphanages were evacuated.

During the war years, the network of orphanages steadily increased, as the number of orphaned and lost children grew. On January 1, 1941, there were 28 local orphanages in the Gorky region with a contingent of 2,267 people. As of January 1, 1942, the number of orphanages increased to 76 (of which 32 were local) with a total of 8,783 children. On January 1, 1943, there were 117 orphanages with 11,739 students.

Since 1943, orphanages, maintained at the expense of collective farms, as well as nurseries for children, were organized. As of January 1, 1944, there were 121 orphanages in total, including 27 collective farms and 2 nursery orphanages.

The leaders of the region needed not only to resettle so many new arrivals, but also to take care of their safety, household arrangements, food, education, providing them with clothes and shoes, which was especially difficult in times of war. The children were sent to the rural areas of the Gorky region, where it was easier to do so.

One of the main problems was the inadequacy of the premises in which the orphanages were located. There was not enough fuel, there were no toilets or laundries, there were difficulties with the supply of water, electricity, there were no kerosene lamps, the children had to sit in the dark. The situation was especially bad with furniture, inventory, utensils; there was a great shortage of beds and underwear, warm clothes and shoes.

Children of different ages came to the Gorky region, from kindergarten to school. In October 1942, 86 children’s institutions with a total of 8,634 people were evicted, of which 30 were preschools (2,734 children), 52 schools (6,246 children) and 4 mixed (245 children and adolescents). In 1943, taking into account collective and local farm orphanages, the majority of pupils were school children – 10,489 people (the remaining 2,299 children were preschool children). The highest percentage fell on children subject to general education (8-12 years). Everything was done to ensure that they attended school and received an education. The progress of pupils in orphanages and boarding schools in 1943 was greater than the general progress in the schools of the region. According to the results of the 3rd quarter of 1943, it amounted to 96.7% against 89.6% in the schools of the region.

In the summer of 1943, questions about the preparation of schools for the new academic year were raised at the meetings of the sessions of the district and village soviets. Teachers, students and bosses jointly restored textbooks, teaching aids and books, and also created new visual materials. In the Pyshchugsky district, students and teachers renovated 17 of 25 schools, saving 23,000 rubles of public funds. The chiefs gave great assistance in repairing the school buildings for the 1943/44 school year and in delivering fuel. Machine Building Plant No. 92 im. IV Stalin completely overhauled the building of school No. 68 of the Kaganovichi district, aircraft plant No. 21 is named after it. S. Ordzhonikidze – the building of the school number 66. Automobile factory. V. M. Molotov helped to fully restore school buildings that were damaged during enemy air raids in June 1943. The students themselves did a lot to prepare schools for winter. The boys sawed and cut firewood, worked on the school plots and had a good harvest. He would prepare hot breakfasts for them in school canteens and buffets. The Arzamas schoolchildren planted special beds for hospitals on their plots. They harvested 16 tons of potatoes, 350 kg of cucumbers, 1,500 kg of carrots and the same number of tomatoes.

There was a constant shortage of writing materials: notebooks, pencils, pens, ballpoint pens, ink, chalk, etc. In preparing for the new academic year, parents, company administrations and collective farms provided significant support to schools.

During the war years, much health work was carried out with children. Every effort was made to get them to out-of-town summer homes, pioneer camps, and sanitariums. Industrial enterprises, collective farms, trade union organizations and the Komsomol regional committee allocated funds for the opening and maintenance of health improvement institutions. In the summer of 1942, 50 pioneer camps were opened with a total coverage of 18,500 children; In the summer of 1943, 74 pioneer camps and 77 health improvement centers were already organized, where 42,140 pioneers and schoolchildren rested. For 3,000 children of front-line soldiers and orphans, vouchers were purchased at the expense of the Gorky Komsomol.

The fight against homelessness and child abandonment was carried out in different ways. The police, along with representatives of the Komsomol and other public figures, carried out raids on evacuation centers, train stations, river docks and markets. From August 1942 to 1943, the Komsomol organizations of the city of Gorky and the region, together with the rono and the police, carried out 91 raids to remove homeless children from the streets. During the “weekly”, held from June 7 to 14, 1943, 862 people were detained in the city of Gorky, of which 140 were homeless children.

Vetluzhsky orphanage

Door-to-door visits were made to identify homeless children, unemployed children and adolescents, who were then sent to police nurseries, created children’s homes. The commissions were dedicated to the arrangement of children who had lost their parents. Children under the age of 14 were sent to orphanages, given up for adoption, under guardianship. In 1943 alone, 432 children were adopted through district and regional health departments, and 1,186 were taken under guardianship and 1,176 under sponsorship.

Orphanage students were entitled to 5 grams of sugar, 10 /grams of butter, 13 grams of noodles per day. A few more grams of cereal, but in old documents the exact figure can no longer be considered. These products were allocated from the state fund. But basically they lived at the expense of subsidiary agriculture and the help of collective farms. I found a report from the director of the orphanage from 1942, where he lamented that the potatoes were not born and that the children needed to be fed something. Then the collective farmers helped them: they gave them unpeeled rye.*

*https://nn.aif.ru/society/persona/tragediya_voyny_kak_zhili_detdomovcy_vdali_ot_linii_fronta

Claudina Norkina orphanage historian

The children foraged for berries and mushrooms, while there were no summer shoes – rags and grass were tied around their feet. It is also documented: there were only 80 felt boots for 130 students during the war years. There were simply no gloves. When I was already living in an orphanage, we would sew them out of old blankets and sweaters. And the winters were fierce then, not like they are now!

Sad histories.

Here is Galya Kozyreva, whom I have already mentioned. She was six years old when the blockade of Leningrad began. My father died on the front in the first months of the war. Mom once went grocery shopping on the cards and didn’t come back; she died under the bombardment. Galya, her little brother Valya and her mother’s younger sister Anya, 16, were left alone. Valya cried all the time and asked for bread. Soon the baby died of exhaustion. Anya carried her little body on a sled to a mass grave. Everyone in besieged Leningrad was buried like this … To save Galya from death, Aunt Anya gave her to the Sestroretsk orphanage. She herself went to the hospital exhausted. The Sestroretsk orphanage was evacuated to the Vetluzhsky district, then Galya was transferred to the Vetluzhsky orphanage.

Here is the Belyantsev family from the village of Undal, Tonkin region. six children. Father was brought to the front. His mother died of typhus in 1943. They wanted to let my father go to the front with the children, but the day before his departure he died while crossing the Dnieper. The orphans lived for a short time with their grandmother and were then sent to an orphanage. As a result, four sisters and two brothers of the Belyantsevs also ended up in the Vetluzhsky orphanage.

I found the passport of our orphanage from 1955. In it, out of 95 people, 73 are considered complete orphans, these are the children of dead soldiers and partisans. They, born in the war, were brought to the orphanage from all over the country. Many had no first or last name, much less information about their parents. Each of those stories is a tragedy of war.

The neighbors took the children and the locals adopted them. But, for example, the older brother of the Belyantsevs, when they were taken to foster homes, did not allow them to adopt his sisters and brothers. He remembered that his father, before leaving for the front, bequeathed him to take care of his family.

Behind these figures there is a multitude of human dramas, countless sad stories, but the effort of the Russian people to improve the conditions of these poor children is commendable. A very little known aspect of WWII in Russia.

The Finns were sadists like the Germans and they present themselves to the world as victims.

Among the many unknown facts of WWII is the behavior of the Finns. They were part of Russia until the Bolshevik revolution and their image in the world is of a small country invaded by their great neighbor, we see that not everything is black or white.

We present a brief note of his behavior with the Russian civilian population in WWII:

Extract from an article in the front-line newspaper “Into the Battle for the Motherland”

of February 1, 1944 on the establishment of concentration camps in Karelia

At the earliest 1 February 1944 III

This is what the White Finns are doing on the Karelian land

(from the front newspaper “In battle for the Motherland” dated February 1, 1944, No. 22)

In the city of Petrozavodsk, they carry out daily raids, during which

they take away all warm and valuable things from the population. Russians are prohibited from living

downtown. On the streets, they can only appear with red armbands on

hands. For the slightest offense, they are thrown into concentration camps.

The White Finns created a whole system of concentration camps. In Petrozavodsk

there are four of them. Each camp contains 3-5 thousand Soviet people.

There are about 3,000 people in the Vedlozero camp. There are also such camps

in Sheltozersky, Kondopoga and Prionezhsky districts.

The regime that has been established for Soviet citizens in the camps can hardly be called inhuman and cruel. What Soviet citizens are experiencing behind barbed wire defies description. Hungry, emaciated people are beaten and forced

work 14-16 hours a day.

Yuryev, who escaped from the camp on Kukkovka, says that 40 percent of the prisoners died of starvation and beatings. Even old people and children are driven behind barbed wire,

who are forced to do overwhelming, exhausting work. Prisoners

eat dead dogs, cats and horses.

There are also so-called labor camps in the occupied territory, where

the entire able-bodied population is being driven away and sent to defense work. Here

also mockery and arbitrariness reign. Lagernikov is kept on starvation rations. Except for 200 grams of bread in the morning and rye gourd in the evening, they are not given anything. From hunger

4–5 people die every day.

A local resident describes one such labor camp: “In the camp on the river

Enema – Obzha there are over a thousand Soviet people. The camp leader is Captain Salminen. This is a sadist and a beast. He always walks with a whip, which from beats the workers. “

In their anger and rage, the White Finnish executioners do not spare either the elderly or children. The commandant of the village of Panila IV, Vedlozersky district, Toivo Pasonen, beat him with a rubber duo. There are no appendices in the file.

II The document was signed by the deputy M.I. Baskakova – A.M. Kuznetsov, from July 31, 1943 – People’s Commissar

state security of the KFSSR.

III Dated from the text of the document.

IV So in the document. That’s right: Pannila.

with a bink until she lost consciousness, the collective farmer Petrova Maria for the fact that she, being sick and blind, could not go to defense work. In schools, Finnish “teachers” beat children with whips and rods.

The White Finnish invaders defeated all collective farms in the regions occupied by them.

In Olonetsky, Vedlozersky, Segozersky and other regions, all crops are declared the property of the Finns. The entire crop of 1941, 1942 and 1943 was exported to Finland. Yet

in 1941 all household plots were taken from the population. The population is starving. When the indignant population of the Tolvuy village council came to the local district headquarters and began to demand bread, the Finnish officer cynically replied: “You, Russians,

you will only eat when we deem it necessary to feed you. “

Finland after Russian -Finnish war

Special message of the acting chief

1st Department of the 4th Directorate of the NKGB USSR Tikhonov People’s Commissar

state security of the USSR V.N. Merkulov on the actions of the Finnish

occupation authorities in the Karelo-Finnish SSR

March 7, 1944

No. 4/8/1752

Special message

People’s Commissar of State Security of the USSR

Comrade MerkulovF

According to the NKGB of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, received from the operational groups operating in the occupied territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR103, about the measures

the enemy knows the following:

The occupation authorities in the Sheltozero region are campaigning among the population

for the fact that in the event of the retreat of the Finnish troops, the population must burn their houses

and whole villages and go with the Finns to Finland. Otherwise

threaten to be shot. According to the message of the “Girlfriend” agent group dated March 4, 1944.

in the village of Leh-Navolok, Prionezhsky district, 7 kilometers from the city of Petrozavodsk, at school, teachers tell the children that when the Finnish troops retreat alive

from the population no one will be left, but all will be shot.

At the same time, the occupiers are pursuing a policy of flirting with the population. So,

in the Prionezhsky region, where the Russian population lives, according to the agent

“Chizhik” dated February 22, 1944, the Finnish authorities began to treat the population better. This is expressed in the fact that the salaries of the population have been increased, if earlier

the average salary was 800 Finnish marks a month, but now they pay up to 1500 Finnish marks, there are no taxes, except for the share of income received from the livestock available to the population.

Along with this, the invaders in every possible way mock Soviet people in the occupied regions of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.

In the village of Zalesye, Sheltozero District, the Finnish authorities for late payment of taxes was beaten with rods in the presence of all residents of the village Chetverikov Dmitry Maksimovich, 50 years old.

In the village of Sheltozero, twenty-year-old I. was raped by Finnish soldiers.

who was accused of “slandering Finnish soldiers.” She was arrested while holding whether in a cold room and bullied. As a result of bullying I. died. On her the parents’ funeral was not admitted.

Residents of the village of Nizovye, Sheltozersky district Maksimova Maria and Myakisheva

Anna sentenced to 10 years in prison with confiscation of all property for what they gave

bread to one partisan.

In the village of Zalesye, a 10-year-old boy Zherebtsov Zhenya was beaten by a Finn teacher until he lost consciousness.

Mass hijacking continues from the occupied regions of the Karelo-Finnish SSR

Soviet citizens to Finland, especially Russians in concentration camps.

The entire population was taken from Petrozavodsk to Finland.

concentration camps of the city. In the near future, it is planned to take 300 residents from the Voznesenie region to Finland.

In recent days, the Finns have been taking away valuables from the occupied areas.

So, according to the message of the “Girlfriend” group of March 4, 1944, the occupants are taking out

to Finland metal, copper, gold and destroy large brick houses that

also taken away from Petrozavodsk and Solomenny.

A census of livestock is being urgently carried out in all villages in the occupied regions.

For the head [chief] of the 1st section of the 4th Directorate of the NKGB of the USSR Tikhonov

Resolution I

: Send to: Merkulov, Kobulov, Fedotov. Head [head] of the 4th Directorate of the NKGB of the USSR Sudoplatov.

An act drawn up by representatives of the political department of the 7th Army,

newspapers “To the Glory of the Motherland” and former prisoners

Ilyinsky camp number 8, on the conditions of detention in the camp

After the Finnish troops captured the villages and villages of the Olonets region

Karelo-Finnish SSR, they created in the area adjacent to the Ilyinsky Sawmill

3 concentration camps, where more than two thousand Soviet citizens were imprisoned,

Russians by nationality 104. The Finnish military authorities called these camps resettlement camps, but in reality they were concentration camps in which there was

a barbaric regime is established. Civilians – women, children and the elderly – were here in the position of prisoners of war. These are the rules that were established in the camp.

state farm number 8. The whole camp was surrounded by barbed wire, and the sentries had an order

open fire on anyone who tries to leave the camp. Walking on

the camp was only allowed until 9 o’clock in the evening.

At the time of the liberation of the territory by Soviet troops, there were 471 people in the camp, including 64 men, 208 women, and infants

up to 16 years – 199. All prisoners in the camp were in extremely difficult conditions. The ration given to the prisoners consisted of 150-300 g of dry black biscuits,

baked from oatmeal and other garbage, from a portion of liquid soup – gruel. Sometimes the so-called “sausage” was issued, made from meat, mainly horse

garbage mixed with cereals. The sausage was always delivered moldy, with signs of rotting, with worms. And no matter how hungry the prisoners were, they often

threw this sausage in the trash. The prisoners were exhausted by backbreaking work – according to

12-14 hours [aces] per day on logging. The Finns made children work. Fourteen-year-old girls Zina Avkudinova, Asya Starchenko, Lida Degtyareva – 15 years old

and many others were forcibly sent into the forest and had to cut

three kb.I

 for a couple. For almost three years, the Finnish authorities did not give any prisoner a pair of boots or any kind of clothing, but required that in any weather

the prisoners went to work every day. This led to massive cases of frostbite. Soviet teacher L.G. Pozik in the winter of 1942, together with 19 prisoners, was sent into the forest to build a road. They weren’t given any tools

and they had to trample the path with their feet. Posik froze her arms and legs and asked permission to leave work an hour earlier. She was released, and on the same day in the evening she was summoned to the camp commandant’s office, stripped, knocked to the floor and struck 24 times.

with a rubber truncheon.

In the commandant’s office there was a whole set of different whips: from thick square rubber and round ones filled with sand. Beatings were common. Cruel

Male prisoners were beaten to a pulp if they spoke to a female prisoner in the street. E.K. Zaretskaya 43 years old, mother of three children received 30 lashes

by order of the commandant Matti, for the fact that her daughter found bread on the road, dropped

from a Finnish car. The victim says: “They put me on a bench, lifted my skirt and began to beat me. Two soldiers held their heads and legs while Matti beat. As a result of the beating, I temporarily lost my sight. “

In addition to individual flogging, mass flogging was carried out. In September 1943 the group

women went from the camp to the village of Tuksa to search for the remains of

potatoes. On their return to the camp, 24 women were beaten with whips in the commandant’s office by order of Junior Sergeant Kashimyaki Toko. They beat them like this: they ordered

take off their outerwear, lie down on the bench and beat me. So they were beaten: Tatiana

Denisevich, Evdokia Potasheva, Tatiana Mukhina – 17 years old, Alexandra Mukhina – 15 years old,

pregnant Sergeantova Anastasia and others. Heartbreaking screams spread throughout the camp. The bodies of the tortured were covered in black bruises.

After the beating, they were deprived of half of their weekly rations. The inmates were subjected to other bullying as well. In March 1944, the Finns came up with a new punishment. For failure to fulfill unbearable tasks or as the Finnish executioners put it

“For poor work” were shaved baldly: A. Potasheva, T. Korzk, O. Tumanova, A. Voronin and the girls L. Sazhinov, V. Nikiforova, A. Smirnova and others. The Finnish authorities did not

took care of sanitary conditions – for all the time the prisoners received 150 g of soap.

As a result of systematic malnutrition, grueling labor, beatings in the camp

died up to 25% of prisoners. Finnish executioners kept a register of all produced

executions with the indication of the name of the punished, the number of blows, but before retreating, all these materials were burned. All of these crimes are directly guilty of:

Corporal Määlepää II, soldier Edward Julimannila, junior sergeant Matti Juli-Luoma

Junior Sergeant Chuko Kasimyaki, Lieutenant of Torma Kerry I

, soldier Lauri Lehtinen,

Alexey Ipatti, sergeant major Mikko Lohikoski.

This act was drawn up on July 1, 1944.

Former prisoners of the camp of state farm No. 8: E.I. Basina, M.I. Kutova, E.G. Bone,

A.N. Fedorova, E.P. Basin.

Major of the political department of the army (signature)

Representative of the newspaper “To the Glory of the Motherland” captain (signature)

More German crimes against Russian children

Brutal executions of children: how the Nazis tried to destroy the future of Russia

© RIA Novosti / RIA NovostiGo to the photo bankThe Great Patriotic War. Hitlerite soldier. Archive photoRead ria.ru atMOSCOW, June 1 – RIA Novosti. During the war years in the occupied territories of the USSR, the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands of Soviet children. The study of regional archives allows us to clarify the scale and circumstances of those crimes. On International Children’s Day, RIA Novosti publishes an interview with Elena Malysheva, the dean of the archival department of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University , a member of the working group of the No Statute of Limitations project, about what historians have learned about the atrocities of the fascists.

“For the Nazis, it was possible to destroy our state only by destroying its future – children. Children with historical self-identification, remembering their parents, home, country – that was the most dangerous thing for the enemy,” Malysheva emphasizes.How many children died at the hands of the invaders is still unknown.

8 May 2020, 05:57The historian explained why the German generals did not believe in the end of the war“The scientific literature says that more than 216 thousand children were deliberately destroyed in the course of punitive operations on the territory of the USSR . Grigory Krivosheev cites this figure in his research on losses during the Great Patriotic War. In fact, the number of deaths is much higher,” Malysheva notes.

“The children were executed along with their families, with their mothers. And it is no coincidence that the phrase“ including children ”is added when assessing the losses of the civilian population, the historian explains.According to her, the study of regional archives within the framework of the No Statute of Limitations project will help to correct the available data, to establish the circumstances of the crimes.

28 May 2020, 15:53Nazi atrocities near Leningrad: explosives in toys and poison for the sick“For example, in the Bryansk State Archives they found a certificate stating that 4665 children died during the occupation of the Bryansk region in 1941-1943. This is three and a half times more than what was previously reported in scientific research. not even in this certificate – there is a dash in front of them “, – gives the example of Malyshev.

Orphanage Executions and Disease Deaths

One of the monstrous crimes of the invaders is the destruction of the pupils of the Anoshensky orphanage in the Vyazemsky district of the Smolensk region .

“From October 4, 1941 to March 10, 1943, 113 people were shot, tortured, starved to death by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices in the Anoshensky orphanage <…>,” the archival document says. Moreover, in 1942, 42 children died of hunger.

6 May 2020, 03:34The historian told how in Mauthausen they made money on the death of prisonersThe testimony of the pediatrician Baranenko, recorded by him in 1943 after the liberation of Smolensk by the Red Army , also testifies to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against children .

“My heart sank with pain at the sight of these kids suffering from cruel living conditions.According to him, if a laborer received 350 grams of bread per day from the invaders, and dependents – 200, then the children were supposed to only 70 grams. “Emaciated children with diseases died in 60% of cases,” the doctor said.

14 November 2019, 03:03FSB declassified the case of the atrocities of the Estonian punishers near PskovThey especially suffered from infectious diseases, Baranenko recalled, in particular from diphtheria, while the doctors practically did not have diphtheria serum. Many children, especially those under the age of three, died from gastrointestinal diseases.

Children’s blood for the invaders

“The invaders massively used children as a source of donor blood for the treatment of their own wounded, which is recorded in many documents. This is one of the atrocities against childhood, because such a loss of blood resulted in the death of a child,” says Elena Malysheva.The fact that the Nazis took blood from children was reported by the Soviet Information Bureau in a report dated September 24, 1942. In the village of Zakharovka, Kursk Region, the German commandant, with the help of soldiers, drove local residents into the courtyard.

8 February 2020, 08:00Those who fled from hell. Soviet officers who escaped from German concentration camps“German doctors selected 26 people, including Solntsev Peter – 14 years old, Grachev Vera – 11 years old, Dvornikov Ekaterina – nine years old and others, and took large doses of blood from them, regardless of any medical standards. nine people, including five teenagers, “- noted in the summary.

Punishments for “crimes”

In the Kursk region, the occupation authorities issued an order according to which children between the ages of ten and 16 were sent to forced educational camps “for their crimes”.The archives also tell about what “crimes” were discussed.

27 January 2020, 08:00Man-made hell. What did the Red Army soldiers see when they liberated the Auschwitz campThus, in the village of Pogozhee, Timsky District, Kursk Region, minors “were brutally beaten and flogged with ramrods because they did not want to work for the invaders.” And in the Novo-Oskol region, the Nazis shot the family of a collective farmer of six people, including four children, “for the fact that one of the boys released a pigeon during a Soviet air raid.”

Gouged eyes and severed ears

The Nazis killed children with sophisticated brutality. In January 1942, retreating under the blows of the Red Army from the settlement of Kresty, Velizhsky district of the Smolensk region, the occupants tortured the Danilov family: 40-year-old mother Anna and her daughters – 16-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Sofia, 5-year-old Valentina and 2-year-old Varvara.

“In front of the mother’s eyes, the smallest girl Varvara was slaughtered by the fascist bastards with a knife, cut off her ears, gouged out her eyes, the eldest daughter of the Komsomol member Lida, these same fiends broke her face, cut her nose, cut out her tongue. is stated in the act of this crime.Near the village of Ilyino, Baturinsky District, Smolensk Region, in November 1942, more than 100 civilians were shot – women, children and the elderly. The Nazis hid the bodies under the snow.“When the snow was dug up and the brushwood and hay were removed, we were faced with a terrible picture of the crime, <…> 109 torn corpses were randomly piled on top of each other, explosive bullets disfigured faces, crushed the heads of innocent victims of fascist murderers. Among the shot were women, teenagers, two an old man of 60-65 years old, 17 children aged from five to ten years, six infants, including a two-month-old girl with a smashed head, “the Soviet commission later wrote.

8 April 2020, 03:36Historian explains how Hitler planned the Slavic Holocaust

One of thousands of German atrocities

A Spanish saying says that a button is enough for a sample, it means that with a button you can give an idea of the entire costume.

The German atrocities have been so many and of such importance that it is painful even to recall them, but the most curious thing is the oblivion that covers them, while the violations committed by the Russian army in Germany are aired and exaggerated ad nauseam, those committed by the Germans against the Russian civilian population they cover themselves with a cloak of silence.

This is all the more incredible in that the deaths in the Russian civilian population far exceed the murders in the Holocaust against the Jews. 4.500.000-10.000.000 civilian  deaths due to military actiosn and crimes against humanity and 8.000.000-9.000.000 civilian deaths due to war related famine and diseases.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country

This surpasses any imagination.

We are going to show a single button of the German atrocities the atrocities committed in the town of Krasnaya Poliana* narrated just after the liberation of the town and in a style typical of the war era. There is little that can be added.

*http://rapsinews.ru/historical_memory_publication/20210616/307140087.html

Fascist atrocities in the village of Krasnaya Polyana. Documentary Chronicle

PLOT: GENOCIDE OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE. DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLE

In order to perpetuate the memory of the civilian population of the Soviet Union, which was expelled and exterminated during the Great Patriotic War, RAPSI studied archival materials * that bear witness to the genocide of citizens of the USSR.

Two-legged beasts

When the Germans stormed the village of Krasnaya Polyana, they arrested all the men in the early hours and locked them in the premises of the district executive committee. They sat there for 8 days until our troops were released, receiving no food. The Germans locked the old women in shelters and cellars, posting sentries on them, and at that time a wild orgy was taking place in the town and nearby towns. Crowds of drunken Hitler scoundrels went from house to house, killing, raping, robbing, burning houses.

On the first day of the arrival of the Germans in Krasnaya Polyana, two fascists appeared to Alexandra Yakovlevna. They saw Demyanova’s daughter Nyura, 14, in the room, a frail girl in frail health. A German officer grabbed the teenager and raped her in front of her mother. On December 10, the doctor at the local gynecological hospital, after examining the girl, declared that this Hitlerian bandit had infected her with syphilis. In a neighboring apartment, fascist cattle raped another 14-year-old girl, Tonya I.

On December 9, the body of a Finnish officer was found in the same town. A “collection” of women’s buttons was found in the victim’s pocket. There were 37 of them. The bloody dog ​​thus followed the trail of his heinous violence. In Krasnaya Polyana, this scoundrel raped 17-year-old Margarita K. and also ripped a button from her blouse. The Red Army bullet took out this filthy bastard, and now his corpse, like carrion, lies around the site of his monstrous crimes.

The Germans brutally mocked the wounded Red Army soldiers captured by them in Krasnaya Polyana. Several wounded soldiers, including an injured nurse, did not receive 4 days of water and 7 days of food, and were then given salt water. The nurse began to agonize. The dying girl was raped by a fascist jackal in front of wounded Red Army soldiers.

Collective Farmers of the Town of White Rast vols. Shcherbakov, Chistov, Sergeev, Klimova and others in an act drawn up by them at the time of the terrified flight of the Germans from this village, declare: In our village, the Germans organized a massive pogrom and looted the property of collective farmers, perpetrated a brutal massacre of the population. A fascist soldier unknown to us by his last name shot the innocent 12-year-old boy Vladimir Tkachev, firing 21 rounds of a machine gun at him. The fascist scoundrels brutally treated the defenseless woman Irina Vasilyevna Mosolova. She was shot point-blank, for no reason, leaving 4 small children orphans: the youngest is 10 months old and the oldest is 11 years old. In Klimova Olga Aleksandrovna, the Nazis shot a 16-year-old son, set the house on fire, killed a cow and looted all property.

The 15-year-old girl Maria Shch., The daughter of a collective farmer from the village of Bely Rast, was stripped naked by the Nazis and taken down the street, entering all the houses where the German soldiers were.

In the same village, one of the German soldiers snatched her two-year-old daughter from the collective farmer Anna Rovinskaya and wanted to throw her into a burning stove. The girl was saved only by a miracle: shots were heard in the street and the cowardly German dog ran out of the hut.

The Germans committed a terrible massacre of the population in the town of Puchki. The fascists who stormed into this village met the collective farmer Ivan Gavrilovich Terekhin and his wife Polina Borisovna, grabbed the young woman, dragged her aside, pushed her into the snow and, in front of her husband, began to rape her time. The woman screamed, resisted with all her might. Then the fascist rapist shot him point-blank. Polina Terekhina stirred in her agony. Her husband escaped the rapists’ hands and ran to the dying woman. But the Germans caught up with him and put 6 bullets in his back …

In any town, in any house visited by the Nazis, the curses of the elderly and women, the tears of the tortured and tormented run after them. They cry out for revenge. We will never forget this to the damn German fascist dogs: for all their atrocities, they will pay in full, they will answer with their vile life, each and every one!

I. GRIBOV. Special correspondent. TASS, December 14, 1941

The Germans kidnappers of children

 The atrocities of the Germans seem to have no end, they committed all kinds of crimes in the occupied countries, today we will deal with the kidnapping of children.

It is estimated that there are about 200,000 children kidnapped by Germany, only in the Soviet Union there were about 50,000.

I read in WWII history books that Russian soldiers on their way encountered trains full of children going to Germany.

Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, blond and blue-eyed boys and girls who have drawn their “lucky ticket”. They were not burned in the Auschwitz furnaces, they did not end up in the experimental subjects of Dr. Joseph Mengele, the “angel of death.” They were forced to forget themselves. They had to become true Aryans, citizens of the Greater Reich. To do this, they changed their metrics, parents, nationality …*

*https://www.mk.ru/social/2020/09/06/tragediya-detey-vyvezennykh-v-germaniyu-vo-vremya-vtoroy-mirovoy.html

These children were deprived of their origins, of their family, and in a way they were lucky because they did not kill them by drawing their blood as thousands of other children or went to the death camps.

In 1938, SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler declared: “I intend to take German blood where I can.” In the occupied territories, children were openly separated from their parents or kidnapped.

The selection criteria were blue eyes and blond hair, in keeping with Hitler’s ideal of “Aryan.” But, of course, the “kinders” had all the necessary measures taken to confirm their racial purity: they checked the shape and volume of the skull, the width of the nose, the distance between the corners of the chin. By the way, there were even Jewish children among those who passed the selection!

One wonders how the German courts reacted when one of these children claimed nowadays to the German State for the prejudices suffered. We will see that the German state always reacts in favor of criminals.

Here we will see some chilling stories of kidnapped children, now old people who try to find the truth and the cruel response of today’s Germany.* The author is  EKATERINA SAZHNEVA

*https://www.mk.ru/social/2020/09/06/tragediya-detey-vyvezennykh-v-germaniyu-vo-vremya-vtoroy-mirovoy.html

You are not in the world

… On November 26, 2015, Hermann Lüdeking, 78, applied for a one-time grant in accordance with the federal government’s decision on the payment of benefits to victims of Nazi injustice and under the General Consequences Act from the war. As a motive, Herr Lüdeking claimed that he was kidnapped by the SS in Poland in 1942 due to his “Aryan” appearance and was soon adopted by the German Lüdeking couple through the Lebensborn organization. The defendant, represented by the Directorate General of Customs, rejected this request on the grounds that this compensation could only be awarded to persons who were German citizens at the time of the damage. However, according to the plaintiff’s statements, in those years he was Polish …

Stolen baby

In his first life, of which he knew nothing at all, Hermann Ludeking was supposedly called Roman Rostakovsky. All he remembered from his early childhood was an unknown bridge over an unknown river. He went through it in his dreams, coming back over and over again, for years.

In 1944, Frau Maria Ludeking, a member of the Union of German Girls, lost her son at the front. She went to Lebensborn, an organization that carried out the forced Germanization of the best representatives of the non-Aryan peoples. She was allowed to pick up a child for herself. Roman was playing in the room with another boy. Maria appreciated both of them and finally took him away.

She for a long time she considered this woman and this man as her relatives.

They are both members of the Nazi Party, her husband is a loyal SS. Considering Herman’s “low” record, they both treated him well.

In Roman-Hermann’s repeated birth certificate, drawn up by Lebensborn himself and issued on March 7, 1944, the date of his birth was considered to be January 20, 1936, the place was a discreet Polish town of Bruckau. It turns out that he was born in … 8 years.

Herman Ludeking

   As a teenager, Herman accidentally unearthed a real birth certificate in the closet, where in place of both parents there was a script. He called Maria for a frank conversation, and she admitted that yes, her biological parents died in the war for the great Führer. Which was not true, they were shot.

  At the age of 16, Herman broke up with his adoptive mother for good, his adoptive father had already died by that time. Perhaps Maria was not so much to blame for the tragedy of the adopted baby, she took care of her and tried to love him instead of loving her deceased child of hers, but he could not forgive her.

Through the Red Cross, Herman-Roman tried his whole life to return to his native Poland, but alas! The applications to the passport offices were returned with the answer that there had never been a person with data like yours. He grew old without finding himself

Deny the claim

Seven decades have passed since the day the all-powerful and mysterious “Lebensborn”, who decided the fate of hundreds of thousands of children, ceased to exist. But, apparently, some orders remain unchanged.

“I preferred to take my son to Russia, I sued in this matter in Germany, and at the same time I decided to find out who was Judge Schommerz, who was in charge of my case, he raised his old judgments and gasped. It was he who at one time rejected Hermann Ludeking’s claim for compensation for moral compensation, just because he was a citizen of Poland in childhood and, in principle, according to the German authorities, did not suffer in any way, on the contrary, you have to thank the Nazis for surviving, ”says Nikolai Erney.

At one point, many of the Lebensborn victims tried to uncover their past and receive monetary reparations, like the Jews for the Holocaust, but to no avail.

Only Herr Ludeking reached the final judgment. As a result, I completely lost … And I still had to!

The Nazis preferred the small age to completely erase the memory. Most of the time, the captives were defined as orphans, and the place of their birth was called “the eastern lands of the Reich”, the children were taught the German language, by the word spoken in their native language, they beat up that they completely forgot that, conditioned reflexes – not remembering that it brings pain.

Today, the German authorities require the plaintiffs to provide the original papers of their birth, the same ones that it is not possible to find, only in these conditions, perhaps they can count on something. “You are not injured, you are saved” are the main reasons for the denial of claims.

“I will meet my father and mother after death”

Geraubte – Stolen Children – Secret Victims, an organization that brings together former Lebensborn children. Unfortunately, each year its members are getting smaller and smaller. This is the natural course of things.

“In fact, I was surprised that the current authorities do not feel any remorse for their predecessors. Yes, in words, it seems, everything is completely different, lush wreaths on the graves of the victims of Nazism, an admission of guilt. But here they are: the real victims of a monstrous experiment who are still alive, help them, ”says Nikolai Erney.

The second old man with whom Nikolai communicated was Alexander Orlov, who was carried by a child to war from the Soviet Union.

He does not know from which region of the USSR he came to Germany and does not like to pronounce his German name. “I don’t need compensation, I just want to know”, this has always been his position. Without finding his roots, at the end of his life he defiantly changed his official name to the original Russian.

“He felt very bad when I contacted him. “Why do I need all this? – repeated the grandfather. “I don’t need anything else. And very soon I will meet my relatives, my mother, my father, my brothers and sisters, in the other world.”

Alexander Orlov has never been married, he has no children. And Hermann Ludeking has eight of them.

“What I don’t understand is why the federal government doesn’t want to recognize these older people as victims and pay. After all, these people are already counting on their fingers. In particular, the compensation is due to homosexuals, victims of euthanasia and those who have been subjected to forced sterilization, but there are no stolen children, regardless of their nationality, in the law … The authorities will wait another five years, and then there will be No one left ”, wonders my interlocutor.

Volker Heinecke, Galina Bukovetski, Zita Sus, Janina Kunstovich …

The last woman, 85, was seriously ill, so her daughter Bettina Grundmann-Horst told German journalists about the fate of her mother.

After World War II, Ioannina’s biological parents were searched with the help of the International Red Cross. But the foster mother hid the girl, now named Johanna Kunzer, and she changed her place of residence to complicate the investigation. It was only in 1989 that Janina Kunstovich, who finally learned the truth, requested to use her real Polish surname. But she then she was denied this.

She “she has not provided compelling reasons that entitle her to issue a new birth certificate. If you are still interested in meeting this request, you must provide unequivocal and indisputable evidence, from which it can be inferred that you are Yanina Kunstovich, ”they officially responded.

“My mother has always been looking for her mother all her life. She suffered terribly from the fact that no one needed her, that she was abandoned, that she did not have a real home, ”her daughter said in an interview with German journalists.

In the summer of 2017, a large-scale German-Polish project took place by Deutsche Welle and the Interia news portal. The journalists visited institutions, archives and foundations, as well as the survivors of forced Germanization. Over several months, more than 40 articles and 24 videos were published. Reporters spoke to people who found out who they were in their eighties.

But even this investigation did not lead to the Lebensborn children being officially recognized as victims of Nazism.

“They forgot about us. Other groups received compensation from Germany, but not us, ”says Hermann Ludecking bitterly.

… In 1945, Lebensborn’s last child was born in the American occupation zone of Germany. In the West, they have long been convinced that it is a peaceful structure that helps single mothers. The truth was revealed by the Nuremberg trials, Lebensborn leaders and employees were charged under three articles at once: a crime against humanity, war crimes and participation in a military organization. However, the head of the organization, Max Solman, was acquitted in the case Lebensborn; he was convicted only as an SS man.

Zolman was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison. According to Wikipedia, he later worked as a journalist at an art publication, headed the department of correspondence and publicity, was manager of the Museum of Ancient Art in Munich, headed the board of a land limited company, headed an accounting firm, and later a glass factory. He died in his bed more than 30 years after the war.

Ah, war, what have you done to us …

After the victory, our repatriation corps began searching for the Soviet children taken out by the Germans. However, few were found, many were intimidated and did not want to confess their past, some did not even remember who they were.

It is believed that no more than 3% of those abducted were returned to the Soviet Union.

Unlike the USSR, the Polish government managed to clarify the fate of more than 30,000 Lebensborn students. They were also sent home. But there they could not be happy. The fascists made fun of them. They were forced to relearn the Polish language, to read Polish books. They were cursed for what the Germans did, because in the eyes of those around them they were Germans.

Many suffered an identity crisis until the end of their lives. Some years later, they searched for their adoptive families, from whom they were also forcibly separated.

… And there will probably be no end to the bridge over which Hermann Ludeking, 84, runs in his dreams.

And on the other side, eight-year-old Roman Rostakovsky is still waiting for him.

Germans murdered children everywhere

Of all the murders committed by the Germans, a veritable army of murderers, the murders of children are the most painful.

The Germans murdered children in all the zones and countries they occupied, France, Italy, Poland, the Soviet Union, etc, we are going to relate what they did with the unfortunate children they caught at the limit of their advance in the USSR in the Caucasus.

In the resort town of Teberda in the KCR, in the 1940s, there was a sanatorium for children with bone tuberculosis. Patients of the Crimean sanatorium were also evacuated there. By this time, the peninsula was already occupied by the Germans.

Teberda

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The enemy was approaching the Caucasus. The medical staff of the sanatorium decided to evacuate children who could walk on crutches from the sanatorium to the Transcaucasus. A group of children, accompanied by adults, in December 1942, under the cold rain and snow, crossed the Klukhorsky pass and were rescued.

Meanwhile, Teberda was occupied by the Nazis. The bedridden children remained in the sanatorium. On December 22, 1942, a truck drove up to the building. The soldiers pushed 54 sick children into it. The youngest of them was three years old. Having closed the doors of the car, the Nazis turned on the gas. After that, the car drove out of the sanatorium. The bodies of the dead children were dumped in the Gunachgira gorge. Today, in Karachai, near Lysaya Gora, there is a monument to these innocent victims of the war.

The Nazis also cruelly dealt with the children of Kislovodsk. Not far from the resort town, near the Ring Mountain, a pit was discovered in which there were children’s remains. Children between the ages of two and 12 were thrown there alive.

Kislovodsk

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In North Ossetia, the Nazis also committed atrocities against children. The Otaraev family lived in the village of Nizhnyaya Saniba. The grandmother and 11 children were hiding in the basement. The Nazis, having learned about this, threw hand grenades there. The Otaraevs had no chance to survive.

In the village of Ardonskaya, a Nazi pierced a baby with a bayonet only because he was crying loudly. A three-year-old boy was killed by the Nazis for humming a Soviet song. The mother rushed to protect the baby, they killed her too. There were a lot of such examples of the atrocities of the fascists in the Caucasus.

Orphanage by the sea

The resort town of Yeysk is located on the estuary of the Sea of Azov. Narrow streets, neat old houses with openwork facades, cobbled sidewalks – this is the city today and this is the way it was in the spring of 1942, when more than a hundred children from the orphanage were evacuated here from Simferopol. The boys were urgently taken to the Kuban, as the Nazis were trying to reach the Crimea via Perekop.

Yeysk

“At first they wanted to send them to Goryachy Klyuch, but as the enemy kept attacking the Caucasus and the city would inevitably be on the way, they were taken to the small tourist town of Yeisk,” says the deputy director of Yeisk. Museum of History and Local Customs. V.V. Samsonova Marina Sidorenko. – There were several reasons for this decision. Firstly, the children suffered from bone tuberculosis and could cure their health by the sea, and secondly, no one expected the Germans to get there.

The children were housed in an orphanage building on the outskirts, in the gardens. Children with mental retardation are raised in this institution: bedridden patients lived in two buildings and those able to work lived in the third. It was an ordinary life: every day the children went to classes in a new secondary school No. 1, located near Pushkin Street, performed in a musical ensemble, drew, played chess. And in August, enemy vehicles rumbled through the streets.

“On behalf of the victims”

The Yeisk Museum contains a manuscript of a documentary story written by Leonid Dvornikov, a former orphanage who miraculously escaped death in a gas chamber. Twelve notebooks are carefully stitched, the yellowed pages are covered with uniform calligraphy.

Yeysk Orphanage

Leonid Vasilievich lost both legs as a child. After the death of his parents, he ended up in an orphanage in Crimea, which was evacuated to Yeisk. An accident, one might say, snatched him from the hands of death; During the raid, a German grabbed him and dragged him to the rear of the car, when the cry of a boy who was furiously resisting was heard from behind. The Gestapo man, believing that Lenya wouldn’t run far with her prosthesis, dropped the sleeve of her sweater and rushed to help. Seizing the moment, he hid in a nearby courtyard.
“After the war, Leonid Dvornikov graduated from the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, became a philologist and subsequently compiled a file on the tragic events at the orphanage to testify in the trials against members of the SS Sonderkommando 10-a”, explains Marina. Sidorenko. -In 1963 he sent his story to the Krasnodar Book Publishing House. They returned it with the words: “In principle, the manuscript is ready for publication, but why is it necessary?” The country was recovering from the devastation of war and few people wanted to remember the horrors of it. He then he donated the notebooks to the museum. I came across them by accident after his death in 2010. The work is written in plain language, but difficult to read. And the idea to reprint it came up. Then three years ago a book appeared.

Death machine

The chronicle of those days is reflected in the testimony (about 50 people survived) … On October 9, 1942, a car with a padded iron body, without a single window, stopped on the porch. The orphans took to the streets without even suspecting that they were facing a real instrument of death. Less than five minutes later, the Nazis began dragging reluctant boys and girls into the open doors of the body, paying no attention to their physical ailments. The SS men answered questions from staff where they were going to take the children, through translators, with satisfied smiles: “for treatment in Krasnodar,” “carry seeds,” or “to the bathhouse.”
In the museum room you can see the only surviving photograph of a student from the orphanage: Vasya Druzhinin. In the car itself, he managed to put on a pioneering tie – the Gestapo tried to rip him off, but failed. His arms are short. “We were born once, and once we will die!” he screamed at the hated face of the enemy. So he died with a pioneer tie around his neck …
The car could not accommodate all the children, so the Germans returned for them in the morning of the next day, October 10.
14 children died, they were thrown into an anti-tank ditch a few kilometers from the city and covered with dirt. I suppose some were still showing signs of life, so they fell asleep. After all, when the Germans carried out the execution, they put people in front of the well, shot and left, the historian continues.
From the information disclosed, it is now known that the victims included children of different nationalities (from 4 to 17 years old): Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Georgians, Tatars, Czechs and even two Germans. But they all had a group of disabled people, and these people were mercilessly exterminated by the Nazis as part of their T-4 sterilization program.
The first exhumation of the bodies took place on April 15, 1943, but the military field doctors present were unable to determine the exact cause of death. “The death of the children was due to suffocation (strangulation)”, as a close examination revealed no gunshot wounds or mutilations on the bodies. Some of the remains were later buried in the town square. The war continued and only 16 coffins were found, where 40 bodies were deposited. The correct conclusion was not made until August 1943. The FSB has just released this document. “The children died from carbon monoxide” and, according to eyewitness testimony, the massacre took place in 10 to 15 minutes while the car was in motion.

Epilog.

Russian investigators requested materials from Canada on Helmut Oberlander, 96, a possible participant in the massacre of 214 disabled children in the Kuban town of Yeisk in the fall of 1942.
Russian investigators requested materials from Canada on Helmut Oberlander, 96, a possible participant in the massacre of 214 disabled children in the Kuban town of Yeisk in the fall of 1942.No statute of limitations
During the war years, he served in Sonderkommando 10-a, which participated in the destruction of civilians in the occupied territories, including the Krasnodar Territory, where gas chambers were used for the first time – mobile gas chambers.
The reason for the request was the documents of the FSB of Russia declassified last year on the execution of orphanages and the criminal case initiated after this under article 357 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “genocide”. Of course, Oberländer denies his involvement in the crimes of the Nazis, stating that his role was reduced only to “translating the language and cleaning the soldiers’ boots”, however, the Supreme Court of Canada found him guilty and deprived of his citizenship. And recently the process of deporting him began. ( 18 /3/2020)

About massacre of Yeysk

The Germans raped, and murdered, far more than the Russians

   The history of WWII has been told almost 100% from the Western point of view and more specifically German. Now in the second decade of the 21st century and 75 years after the end of the war we know that the majority of the German government, police, army and secret police of West Germany was composed of a majority, or all, of Nazis. The Americans gave priority to the cold war against Russia and the punishment of the murderers was relegated to second or third place. The historiography about the war came practically from the German side, especially from the war in the East, and Anglo-Saxon historians, in many cases, relied on them. It was not until a few decades ago that English and American historians directly consulted Russian archives that offer a totally different experience from what happened in the  East.

Russian women and children

   An example of this is the reality of the rapes of     women. The rapes of German women by the Russians have been publicized ad nauseam. Also recently it has been shown that other allies also raped German women but the rape, and murder, of Russian women and girls by the Germans lies in complete oblivion. With the aggravating circumstance that the vast majority of the raped German women were still alive, but the percentage of Russian women, and those from other nations, murdered after raping them by the Germans is very high.

To this is added that Russian historians and the Russian people in general are reluctant to deal with this subject that threatens their honor.

Moscow historian Ksenia Sak recently published a book called “Missing and Forgotten: Women Raped in the Soviet Occupied Territories.”

The report is emotionally horrible in terms of factual content, but on this subject it is necessary to speak: violence against women by the occupiers of the Axis countries and local collaborationist units was actually legalized as part of the implementation of the plan. Ost for genocide. civilians in Poland, Russia, Belarus, the Baltic countries and other territories within the Soviet Union.

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The Germans used rape in many cases in a systematic way, creating brothels with forcibly recruited women, in the occupied cities there was a veritable hunt for young women for those brothels and many mothers who went out to look for some food never returned.

Some examples :

In Moldova, the Germans raped a 9-year-old girl – her mother found her covered in blood, unconscious. The next day, her mother went to the commander’s office and filed a complaint – they laughed at her, it all ended in nothing.

The historian found in the archives the fact of the rape by German soldiers of a 9-year-old girl who was skiing. There have been cases of rape of older women, up to the age of 68. These crimes were almost always accompanied by beatings and injuries, and some victims went crazy and tried to hang themselves.

According to Ksenia Sak, the rapes of Soviet women committed by soldiers of the Wehrmacht, SS, SD and collaborators in the occupied territories were practically not documented during the first year and a half of the Great Patriotic War. But after Army Group Center, Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch was expelled from Moscow, thousands of rape cases were revealed. In 1942 the Extraordinary State Commission (CHGK) was created, which registered, among other things, this type of crime. The author of the report gave an example from the ChGK newscast about the third year of the war in Rzhev. This chronicle was shown during the Nuremberg Tribunal. “Next door, a family tortured by Nazi soldiers. Their 18-year-old son Valentin was shot in the eye. Raya’s 15-year-old daughter was stabbed to death with a bayonet. Katya’s daughter , 5 months old, was shot in the temple. Daughter Zina, 18 years old.

In the village of Khanino, a group of German officers organized a drunken party to which they dragged a local teacher and raped her one by one. Sixteen-year-old collective farmer Ch. She was raped by five German soldiers. The Nazis rounded up all the girls and young women from Tokarevo and the surrounding villages and led them in an unknown direction.

(Red Star, September 11, 1941)

In the Ukrainian village of Borodaevka, the Nazis raped all the women and girls.

Unfortunately, the facts of these crimes did not become part of the Nuremberg trials by the Nazis, and most Soviet women chose to hide their shame. There was an idea to demand reparations from Germany: 3,000 rubles for a raped woman and 5,000 rubles for a disgraced girl, but the Soviet leadership did not support it.

To be continue….

Tragedy upon tragedy.

Survivors

 The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaky left thousands of victims, but it also left thousands of orphans and their history is unknown to the general public.

One hopes that after this tragedy the survivors and the rest of Japan would turn to help these unhappy children, but for many it was just the opposite, they took advantage of them until they caused their death in many cases.

The help to these children was little or no, many died in the following days.

Shoso Kawamoto, a survivor of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, has been telling the “untold story” of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945

Kawamato lost his parents and four of his six siblings in the atomic attack when he was just 11.

Following the devastation, some orphans died of starvation and many girls were sold to the Yakuza [organized crime syndicate] to work as prostitutes, Kawamoto said.

“We were desperate for survival, desperate for food,” the 82-year-old museum volunteer recalled. “Some orphans assaulted whoever had food and snatched it from their hand.”

Orphans did not receive any support during the chaos of the postwar period, so they had no choice other than to work for the Yakuza, who came to Hiroshima and started taking care of them, he said.

takakao Gokan was 11 years old when the atomic bomb spread terror in Hiroshima,she is now 86 and tells it in first person.

“I felt like a star full of needles went through my body. And suddenly the fire arose. I don’t remember well, but a few minutes later, I heard a great crash that threw me at a distance of more than 8 meters. I heard a person yelling at me : “Danger!” At that moment the entire school building collapsed and a soldier covered me overhead. It was probably he who shouted “Danger!”. Everything was dark and I couldn’t hear anything. Little by little “I started to see and a little light came in. I dug through the remains to get out and when I could see myself I noticed that my face was swollen and my skin hung down. I didn’t recognize anyone’s faces.”

Takako Gokan

“At that moment Ishizaki, one of my teachers, appeared and carried me on his shoulders to the school gym where my injured classmates were. They gave me an injection of camphor. I was almost dead. Everything was scorched, full of ashes … no You could tell if there were people or buildings. There were no doctors, no food, no medicine. We were just lying down and trying to sleep. They put a heart-shaped flower leaf on the wounds. The heart heals everything. As a result of the explosion two fingers of my right hand joined me. They separated when I put that flower. I was in the gym for three months. It was very hard. I remember a child my age who asked for water and no one could give it to him, of course. dying. His face was full of roe and flies. That memory still comes to me today; it marked me a lot. I don’t remember his name. I saw a window from which smoke was coming out. And I understood that the child, my companion, had died and they were burning him. She had burns on her arm and bugs. I wondered if I would be next. “

Another survivor of Hiroshima Yasuaki Yamashita 6 years old when the bomb

Family members and acquaintances came to the gym asking why we were there. A lady asked me for my name. She was looking for her daughter, but she did not find her, and she gave me some fruit. For the first time since the atomic bomb fell I felt some life. We slept on the ground. We were still without beds or medicine. In all that time (two weeks had already passed) only one doctor came from Tokyo twice. Nearby was a stone staircase. When the bomb exploded, someone died instantly. Only the shadow of the person remained. “

The role of the Yakuza, that sinister organization in the trade of children was deplorable, the unfortunate who fell into its clutches suffered horribly.

One of the Yakuza’s businesses was sexual exploitation,

After helping the Japanese government procure “comfort women” for Japanese and then American soldiers, the yakuza continued to develop the commercial sex industry in Japan. The 1970s and 1980s proved to be a prosperous time for Japan and the yakuza. Towards the end of the 1960s, the tourism industry exploded as Japanese citizens earned larger incomes and a strong yen made travel abroad relatively inexpensive. Tourism was not utilized to strengthen cultural education, though. Rather, Japanese men lined up at airports to experience wild weekends abroad with an itinerary focused on sex parties. Although the yakuza did not invent sex tourism, they capitalized on this new tourism frenzy by organizing large-scale sex tours throughout East Asia.

The yakuza first exploited this new industry in Taiwan and then Korea. In Korea, they organized trips to kisaeng parties. Kisaeng is a Korean word traditionally associated with female entertainers, very similar to Japanese geisha, but with the influx of tourists these women simply became known as prostitutes. By the end of the 1970s more than 650,000 Japanese citizens visited Korea annually with eighty percent of visitors listing kisaeng as the primary focus of their trip. Sex tourism became so popular that major airlines such as Japan Air Lines listed kisaeng parties amongst the recommended tourist activities in their guidebooks for Korea.

Many kisaeng, like those shown above, became known as prostitutes in the 1970s.

During the 1970s the yakuza expanded the sex tourism industry to Thailand and the Philippines where many of the sex workers were sold into sex slavery by their poor families. The Yakuza did not control the industry in these countries; instead they worked with local gang members to bribe local village leaders to convince families to sell daughters into the sex industry. The yakuza also financed many of the clubs in which Japanese men frequented in these foreign countries and led many of the sex tours as guides to the best “sex spots.”

Japan has not ratified the United Nations’ Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (UNTIP). Although several news stories highlighted the plight of foreign sex slaves in Japan throughout the 1990’s, the Japanese government did little to decrease human trafficking until 2004. In 2004 the U.S. Department of State placed Japan on the “Tier 2 Watch List” which harmed Japan’s image as a safe and relatively crime free country and motivated the Japanese government to act.*

* http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1265/human-trafficking-the-japanese-commercial-sex-industry-and-the-yakuza-recommendations-for-the-japanese-government

More about the orphans

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/795/

Sosho Kawamoto remembers

Atrocities of the Ukrainians in Belarus

At a time when phil-Nazi or openly Nazi movements are emerging in Europe, especially in Ukraine and the Baltic regions, it is important to remember the atrocities committed by Ukrainian collaborators with the Germans in Belarus.
An artícle of Vitaly SNEGIRYOV, 21 March 2014, in the Internet magazine  Pитм Eвразий literally makes your hair stand on end.

https://www.ritmeurasia.org/news–2014-03-21–krovavyj-sled-banderovcev-v-belorussii-11911

OUR HISTORY

Today, the events taking place in Ukraine are closely watched in neighboring Belarus. And not only because of certain geopolitical and historical parallels. In partisan Belarus, the memory of the crimes committed against the Belarusian people by the Bandera detachments, transferred to the aid of the occupying Nazi units and garrisons, is alive.

Portraits of Bandera and Shukhevych in the center of today’s Kiev make old veterans from Belarus re-experience everything that they saw during the Great Patriotic War, and even after its end. The attempt to protect the murderers and rapists from the OUN-UPA by the official representative of Ukraine to the UN, who stated that the Russian / Soviet justice fabricated materials about the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists for the Nuremberg trials, cannot but be outraged.

Bandera became the banner of the Kiev Maidan

The bloody trail left by the Bandera on the Belarusian soil still excites the people’s memory, appeals to the condemnation of both the collaborators themselves and their modern lawyers.

The so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army was created on October 14, 1942. The UPA was headed by Roman Shukhevych – the owner of two knightly orders of Nazi Germany. It was the UPA that the fascists tried to oppose to the truly popular mass partisan movement that had flared up in Belarus. For this purpose, not only were the UPA units formed in Ukraine actively used, but also combat units were created from among the prisoners of the Red Army-Ukrainians, whom the representatives of the UPA actively processed. Moreover, this activity of Ukrainian emissaries, with the active assistance of the German fascist administration, began on the territory of Belarus even before the official creation of the UPA – in 1941.

 As a result, Ukrainian auxiliary police battalions were created, which were reinforced by 8 battalions formed directly in Ukraine (101, 102, 109, 115, 118, 136, 137 and 201st). Later, other Bandera units were also deployed to Belarus.

Armed and ready to “work”

Due to the fact that the Belarusian policemen were reluctant to carry out punitive operations, as they feared for their fate, the Nazis entrusted these “functions” to the alien battalions of Bandera. And they fully justified the hopes of the invaders – they burned and killed indiscriminately and with pity, leaving continuous ashes and mountains of people tortured and burned alive on the Belarusian land.

Khatyn

Khatyn

One of the most famous and monstrous crimes was the participation of a company of the 118th battalion, most of whose personnel were Ukrainian nationalists, in a joint operation with the Germans to destroy the village of Khatyn on March 22, 1943. The village was burned to the ground. Together with the buildings, 149 civilians were shot and burned alive. About half of them are minor children, most of the other half are women and frail old people. Now Khatyn is known all over the world – a memorial complex was created on the site of the burnt village.

Have already “worked” …

Modern followers of Bandera and Shukhevych diligently disown the crime committed in Khatyn, trying to prove that Ukrainian nationalists from the 118th battalion were “immigrants from the Red Army.” However, the “handwriting” of sadists and punishers is quite recognizable. The militants of Shukhevych and other Bandera punishers and scum in Belarus also committed other atrocities, which have been fully proven to date, but have not received such fame as the Khatyn tragedy. Particularly distinguished was the 201st battalion, the 1st hundred of which, before the creation of the UPA, was commanded by the “hero” of present-day Ukraine Roman Shukhevych (this “high rank” was awarded to him by President V. Yushchenko, with which the current illegitimate “rulers” of Ukraine and leaders of the Maidan). Punishers and scoundrels from the 201st battalion of the Schutzmanschaft (security police) left a bloody memory of themselves, zealously helping the Nazis during the punitive operations “Swamp Fever” in the Vitebsk region, “Triangle” in the Brest region, “Cottbus” in the Minsk and Vitebsk regions …

Brest Region

Brest Region

Operation Swamp Fever was carried out by the Nazis with the active participation of Bandera from August 25 to September 20, 1942 in the area of ​​Lake Domzharitskoye in order to defeat the partisan detachment “Roman” (commander RA Dyakov). But in stubborn battles, the partisans inflicted heavy counterattacks on the punishers, and they refused to pursue. And the second stage of this operation was unsuccessful for the Germans and Bandera. It was supposed to destroy the partisan detachments “Avenger” (commander VT Voronyansky) and “Struggle” (commander SN Dolganov), which held the defense in the interfluve of Viliya and Ilia. The partisans not only escaped from the encirclement, but also led the bulk of the civilian population to the area of ​​the Pedan-Mstizh villages.

Tupichitsy

Tupichitsy

Then, the Nazis and Bandera, who were brutalized by failures, conducted four punitive operations against the defenseless civilian population. They did much better at fighting defenseless people. As a result, more than 10 thousand people were killed and burned alive, more than 1200 were taken to work in Germany. In the villages of Bobrovichi and Vygoschi, 707 people were killed at the same time. On September 10, 1942, chastisers destroyed all 37 houses and 135 inhabitants of the Zatishye village. On September 15, 217 residents of the village of Vyada were killed, and the village itself was burned. 143 residents of the neighboring village of Tupichitsa were killed, and their houses were burned. Like Khatyn, Tupichitsy, which have been known to historians since 1552, irrevocably disappeared from the map of Belarus.

This is also the work of punishers

During Operation Triangle in the Brest region, on September 11, 1942, residents of the village of Dremlevo in the Zhabinka district gathered to celebrate the feast of John the Baptist, which, according to historians, they celebrated annually since 1561, especially since the occupiers did not formally object to religious rituals. But right during the holiday, punishers burst into the village – many residents were killed right on the street, the rest were driven into a barn and burned. 190 Belarusians were killed.

Dremlevo

Dremlevo

Operation Triangle lasted 17 days. In the village of Borisovka, 206 people were shot, 225 houses were burned. In the village of Leplevka, the monsters killed 54 children and their teacher, an employee of the Domachevo orphanage. The same atrocities were committed in Kamenka (152 people died), Borki (705 people, including 372 women and 130 children), Zelena Buda (28 dead), Zabolotye (289 dead). Ukrainian nationalists were in the forefront of the punishers in all these cases.

Operation Cottbus began on June 20, 1943. Among others, the 15th, 102nd, 118th and 237th auxiliary police battalions were involved. The operation was carried out in the Minsk and Vitebsk regions with the active support of tanks, aviation and artillery. Not only partisan detachments were surrounded, but also many civilians and children. The partisans were forced to retreat into impenetrable forests and swamps. Civilians were hiding with them. A terrible hunger began. As a result of Operation Cottbus, more than 10 thousand people were killed.

In a letter to Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky, the idol of today’s Maidan Ukraine, Shukhevych, unabashedly reported in the summer of 1942 about his “exploits”: “Your holy excellence. We are doing well, the Germans are satisfied with our work. ” The “work” was murder and torture, the destruction of children, old people and women. It is no coincidence that the high-ranking SS man Bach-Zalevsky, who later testified at the Nuremberg Tribunal, considered this battalion the best among his punishers. Shukhevych, whose portraits adorn the center of Kiev today, was eventually awarded the Iron Cross “for diligence in military work.”

Meanwhile, in clashes with the partisans, the Schutzmans were much less successful. After heavy punitive battles in the Lepel area (Vitebsk region), the Bandera simply fled, fleeing the zone saturated with partisans.

The UPA, by the way, was the direct ideological successor of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose members formed the backbone of the new organization. On the territory of Belarus, the OUN members, actively supported from abroad, began their activities since the reunification of Western Belarus and Ukraine with the USSR in 1939. After the start of the Nazi occupation, the southern regions of Belarus were included in the Reichskommissariat “Ukraine”. In this regard, it was the Brest region, as the southern region of Belarus, that was subjected to powerful attacks by punishers from the UPA. In total, about 250 units of Ukrainian nationalists operated in the Brest region. OUN activists under the leadership of Bandera and Melnik actively joined the SS Galicia division created with the direct support of Himmler himself.

Such posters called punishers to fight “Bolshevism”, but in reality – with the elderly, women and children

In the summer of 1942, another SS battalion, consisting of Ukrainian nationalists, arrived in Brest. The Jews had already been destroyed by this time, therefore, mass executions of Poles, underground workers, and all Belarusians began, who showed the slightest dissatisfaction with the “new” fascist “order” or were suspected of having links with partisans.

The village of Lelikovo in the Kobrin district of the Brest region of Belarus is located just a few kilometers from the current Belarusian-Ukrainian border. This is a typical Belarusian village, whose fate has been repeated by hundreds of villages. Despite the fact that Belarusians-Poleshuk (residents of Polesie – the southern part of Belarus), both in speech and in customs, differ little from the population of the border part of Ukraine, the Belarusian-Ukrainian border became a significant border, beyond which the influence of the OUN and UPA ended. Poleshuk, like the rest of the Belarusians, in their overwhelming majority supported the Soviet partisans. It was in Polesie that the detachments of Ukrainian nationalists, hoping to find allies for themselves in the “struggle for Great Ukraine”, met fierce resistance from partisan detachments.

Lelikovo

Lelikovo

OUN and UPA did not forgive the Belarusians for this. After the Red Army units and the partisan brigades that joined their ranks went to the west to beat the retreating fascists, a ruthless terror was launched against the civilian population of Belarusian villages by Bandera gangs. In Lelikovo, the journalists of “Sovetskaya Belorussia” conducted a mass poll of the local population in 2006 immediately after it was announced in Kiev that the OUN-UPA members of Bandera were now “heroes” of Ukraine. The inhabitants of the Belarusian village were outraged to the depths of their souls about what had happened. Here are just a few responses. “Bandera’s people killed us. What kind of heroes are they? What kind of liberators are they? ” – Petr Shepetyuk, head of the Lelikovsky village club, was indignant. He was supported by his wife Anastasia: “Although I was a child, I remember well how my father discussed the next raids of Bandera at the evenings with fellow villagers.” Her uncle Ivan Shepetyuk (in Polesie often residents of an entire village have the same surname) remembered how Bandera killed his father, also Ivan Shepetyuk. Their father was also killed at Evdokia Gogniuk. During the war he mined salt for the partisans. And Nikolai Korzh recalled in detail the day of April 24, 1945: “We, small children, hid on the street, in a potato pit. Bandera’s men saw us and threw a grenade. Mitya, he was already 14 years old, did not have time to jump out of the pit with the one-year-old Yakov in his arms. Perished. “

The same situation, as in Lelikovo, was in almost all the villages of the Divinsky district and other places in Polesie. Most of all, Belarusians are outraged by the fact that the brutal murders and tortures that took place almost until the mid-1950s, until the OUN-UPA Bandera members were finally defeated, were not committed by some aliens, but by residents of neighboring Ukrainian villages located just a few kilometers from Belarusian villages – the detachments of Dvorko, Ermak, Konopelko, Artemchuk, Yushchik, Savchuk and other scoundrels and scum. In the period from 1944 to 1946 alone, the OUN-UPA carried out 2384 terrorist attacks and sabotage in Belarus. 1,012 people were killed. There is data for 1945. Of those who fell at the hands of Bandera, only 50 were employees of the NKVD, 8 were officers, 28 were privates and sergeants of the Red Army. The remaining 298 people killed in the border regions of Belarus in 1945 were women, old people and children.

No forgiveness for the fiends!

Khatyn. A common memorial in memory of the Belarusian villages burned down by punishers

But here’s what is disturbing. It would seem that in Belarus, where every fourth resident died during the war, and according to updated data, every third resident, the coming to power in Kiev of the Maidan forces, acting under Bandera slogans, should cause hostility and alarm. But the younger generation, who does not know anything about the war, increasingly begins to believe the fables that the bloody scum and scoundrels from the OUN-UPA are in fact “heroes who fought for the freedom of Ukraine”. And recently, on the state Belarusian TV, TV journalist Tengiz Dumbadze, who came from Georgia and made a rapid career in publicly supporting the authorities’ position on the non-recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, said at all: you need to understand and even accept that Bandera and Shukhevych are real heroes for many Ukrainians …

It is a pity if the lessons of the Maidan did not teach anyone anything. Whoever forgets the indelible bloody trail of the OUN-UPA militants on the Belarusian soil, he risks that someday the same trail will be left on his fate.

And more attrocities of the Germans in Bielorrusia.

German attrocities

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Phото – http://www.radzima.org/ru/mesto/hatyny.html

The Lidice children

Among the ramblings of WWII, those committed on children are, in my opinion, the worst. Of course the Germans are the main culprits of what happened, since they not only committed them but also induced their partners, the Baltic countries, the Austrians, the Romanians, the Hungarians, etc. to carry out all kinds of atrocities. One of the German specialties was to murder entire towns, men, women and children, in Belarus and throughout the USSR thousands of towns were the victims, but as is often the case, even today, the further east the atrocities occur, the more unknown they are. The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich  

Reinhard Heydrich

In the late spring of 1942,all 173 males from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942. A further 11 men from the village but who were not present at the time, were later arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others who were already under arrest. The 184 women and 88 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children who were considered racially suitable and thus eligible for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed.

But it is not our intention to describe the horror suffered by the unhappy inhabitants of that village, for this you can see the links at the bottom of this article, but rather to follow the fate of the rare children abducted and who survived that barbarism.

Three days after the attack, Nazi officials separated the young from their mothers, assuring all that a reunion would follow relocation. The women boarded trucks bound for Ravensbrückconcentration camp, and most of the children left for a camp in Łódź, Poland.

The young survivors arrived in Łódź with a message from their Nazi captors: “The children are taking with them only what they wear. No special care is to be provided.” Indeed, the only “care” given at the camp was extensive physical testing. German doctors measured the children’s facial features, identifying those with “Aryan” characteristics as candidates for Germanization —a process where suitably featured non-German children were adopted by German families.

In total, nine children met the criteria for Germanization and were sent to Puschkau, Poland, to learn German and begin the assimilation process. On July 2, the remaining 81 children arrived at Chelmno  extermination camp. Historians believe they were killed in mobile gas chambers that same day. 

By the end of the war, 340 of Lidice’s 503 residents were dead as a direct result of the June 10 massacre. 143 women and 17 children, including those born just after the attack, eventually returned to the ruins of their hometown and began the arduous task of resurrecting the community.

(https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-lidice-massacre-180970242/ )

Only 17 children come back, many only speaking German because they were adopted by German families ( nazis of course ).

Lidice School

Some histories of the survivors :

Anna Hanfová, one of three siblings selected for Germanization, was one of the first lost children to return. She spent the remainder of the war living in eastern Germany but maintained limited contact with her sister Marie and cousin Emilie Frejová, and when Anna returned to Lidice, she led authorities to both relatives’ new German homes.

Otto and Freda Kuckuk, a well-to-do couple with strong SS ties, had adopted Frejová. In Witnesses to War, author Michael Leapman writes that Frejová adjusted well, but Marie’s new life was more complicated: Her adoptive family treated her like a slave and convinced her that the Czech were a subservient race. It took several years for Marie to overcome this indoctrinated belief.

Václav, the third sibling, refused to cooperate with his captors; he drifted between children’s homes and incurred brutal punishments for unruly behavior. In late 1945, Josefina Napravilova, a humanitarian who located about 40 lost Czech children during the aftermath of the war, encountered Vaclav at a displaced persons camp. He was slow to trust her but later dubbed Napravilova his “second mother.”

Elizabeth White, a historian at theUnoited States Holocaust Memorial Museum, , explains the difficulty of the children’s rehabilitation process, as most selected for Germanization were taken from home at a young age and eventually forgot their Czech heritage.

“When [the children] were found and sent back, they didn’t remember how to speak Czech,” White says. “One girl’s mother survived Ravensbrück but had tuberculosis and died four months after she came back. At first when they spoke, they had to use a translator.”

(https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-lidice-massacre-180970242/)

Lídice massacreThe exterminion of Lidice

The massacre of Lidic

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/lidice.html
The lost children

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-lidice-massacre-180970242/

Nazis filmed the destruction of my village.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-27924054
One survivor

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-19506080

Another survivor

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.obituaries/c/AU_jl7myfNA?pli=1
Tjhe Lidice massacre after 65 years

https://english.radio.cz/lidice-massacre-after-65-years-8607185
An example of collective guilty 70 years after

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/lidice-an-example-of-collective-guilt-70-years-later